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Distributed Autowiring with GigaSpaces Executors
July 22nd, 2009dzone_url = “http://www.kimchy.org/distributed-autowiring-with-gigaspaces-executors/”;With the 7.0 release of GigaSpaces, I thought I would write some blogs about the new and exciting new features that are part of the release. The first feature that I would like to talk about is GigaSpaces executors support (which premiered in 6.6) and one of the cool things you can do with it.
In [...]
Actor Model and Data Grids
January 18th, 2009dzone_url = “http://www.kimchy.org/actor-model-and-data-grids/”;The Actor Model is getting a log of (much deserved) hype for the past year. With languages like Scala and Erlang pretty much leading the way in reviving it.
First, here is what wikipedia has to say about the Actor Model:
In computer science, the Actor model is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats [...]
No more shared-lib
January 18th, 2009In GigaSpaces version 6.x, a processing unit structure consisted of the following: Classes were placed under the root of the processing unit (/), jar files were placed under the lib directory, and shared resources were placed under the shared-lib directory. The most notable shared resources that were (required to be) placed under the shared-lib were [...]
Beyond Data Grid - Tech Talk
July 2nd, 2008The tech talk I did with Jason Carriera talking about data grids and beyond is online. Check it out here.
Collocated Indexing and Distributed Search with GigaSpaces
June 28th, 2008Compass 2.0 already comes with an integration between GigaSpaces and Lucene/Compass. The integration allows to store the Lucene index (using Lucene Directory) abstraction on top of GigaSpaces. It also allows to use GigaSpaces mirror services allowing to automatically index the content of the data grid (Space) in an asynchronous reliable manner.
The current integration provides great [...]
