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New Article: “Considering Datastores.”

April 19th, 2010

I just published “Considering Datastores” in the “articles” section of my blog, a piece discussing various data storage mechanisms and their strengths and weaknesses compared to each other.

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GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 being released Wednesday!

April 13th, 2010

This Wednesday, GigaSpaces is releasing XAP 7.1 GA. XAP stands for “eXtreme Application Platform,” and we included a lot of functionality based around earning that kind of name. Well, more than we already did – we’ve always been leaders in scalability.
Probably the most visible aspects of the new release are the technology previews, around Elastic [...]

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  1. ID Generator Bean for GigaSpaces XAP
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GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 being released tomorrow!

April 13th, 2010

This Wednesday, GigaSpaces is releasing XAP 7.1 GA. XAP stands for “eXtreme Application Platform,” and we included a lot of functionality based around earning that kind of name. Well, more than we already did – we’ve always been leaders in scalability.
Probably the most visible aspects of the new release are the technology previews, around Elastic [...]

GigaSpaces 7.1 Early Access – worth it, totally

April 6th, 2010

I’ve been enjoying being back at GigaSpaces, but one of the coolest of the various bits and bobs is the access to future releases – including the one right around the corner.
Hint, hint *cough* 7.1 *cough*
Dudes: if you’re interested in scalable cloud computing with distribution of both data and processing – you really, really want [...]

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ID Generator Bean for GigaSpaces XAP

April 5th, 2010

Shay Hasidim just published Global ID Generator, a global ID generator bean (surprise!) for GigaSpaces XAP, on the GigaSpaces Wiki. Good stuff. I prefer String ids, mind – and GigaSpaces can assign such itself, although there are good reasons to generate it pre-write.

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Hibernate is faster than I thought it [...]

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