Author Archives: Jim Liddle
GigaSpaces EC2 Cloud Casino application released on Facebook
The latest cloud enabled application using the GigaSpaces EC2 cloud tools went live on Facebook yesterday. This is a Facebook application built by Advanced Gaming Labs. The application is the first completely multi-player global Casino Application that runs exclusively on the Cloud and was built on the cloud from the ground up using GigaSpaces.
If you would like to play the application you can do this on Facebook here.
There are lots of firsts for this application and you’ll be hearing lots more about in the forthcoming weeks as other news about the application and other launches using the engine become available.
Trading in the Clouds Amazon Start up Event Video
In my prior post I posted the slides from the London Amazon Web Services event. The video of the Orbyte presentation about their GigaSpaces built Trading solution is now available and can be viewed below or from this link. Cédric … Continue reading
Online gaming high scalability Event in London
I will be speaking at the Online gaming high scalability special interest group in London on 9th July. Registration for this event is now open, but be quick because there is already only 44 tickets left. My session is entitled … Continue reading
Live from AWS startup event in the UK
I’m currently at the Amazon Web Service Startup event in the UK. It’s been a good day and there have been a lot of good presentations. GigaSpaces had a cloud client, Orbyte, referenced in a prior post presenting their “Trading in the Clouds” solution. You can see the presentation that they presented below.
ORbyte AWS Startup Talk 2009
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Using GigaSpaces to Trade in the EC2 Cloud
One of the GigaSpaces customers I have been working with recently is called Orbyte Solutions. The team behind Orbyte have many years experience developing FX Trading and Spread betting platforms for large banks and financial organisations. The Retail CFD, FX and SpreadBetting is a highly competitive market which operates on tight spreads and low commissions. Clients are sophisticated and expect product innovation, advanced trading features and above all being able to trade quickly in any conditions.
The key drivers for these businesses to remain competitive can be summarised as:
- Consistent, reliable and efficient service delivery under any market conditions
- Product innovation and time to market
- Cost effectiveness
Historically the platforms which support these businesses have been based on a tier architecture (at best 3-tier at worst 2-tier). They are often heavily reliant on relational databases. Sometimes they implement some level of data caching and messaging. Orbyte observed that most companies in this sector have developed these caching and messaging components internally. What might have given them a technical edge 10 years ago have now become a burden with a high cost of ownership. Using GigaSpaces Orbyte have built solutions that allow Retail CFD, FX and SpreadBetting businesses can get more “bang for their buck” by moving away from the traditional tier-based model and internally developed “plumbing” components (messaging, caching, and deployment).
As GigaSpaces makes it easy to build systems that work as easily on the Cloud as they do internally Orbyte have been able put a demo of their system on the Amazon EC2 Cloud.
In terms of EC2 instances – this is currently running on
- 1 x m1.small – GigaSpaces Grid Service Manager
- 1 x c1.xlarge – Instance – Grid Service Containers
- 1 x m1.small – Windows Small Instance – .NET Web Services
**Until 5PM GMT 23rd April the demo system will be live on the EC2 Cloud for you to have a sneak peak**.
You can use the connection details below.
The connection details are below:
http://ec2.orbytesolutions.com/tradesphere
test accounts:
username: test01
password: 1515
password: 1515
username: test02
password: 1515
username: test03
password: 1515
