Author Archives: Nati Shalom
Behind the Curtains of Cloudify, GigaSpaces’ new product
Announcing a new product is a major and exciting milestone in a company’s lifecycle. Our last announcment was the launch of XAP a few years ago – the Xtreme Application Platform aimed to provide a complete end to end scalability… Continue reading
Java and Center Stage: Meet us at JavaOne 2011
It seems that now Java is taking center stage in the Cloud world, with more application platforms such as SalesForce/Heroku, VMware, Redhat/OpenShift, Cloud.com, JClouds, and obviously GigaSpaces providing a rich set of offerings that are based on… Continue reading
Big Data Application Platform
It’s time to think of the architecture and application platforms surrounding "Big Data" databases. Big Data is often centered around new database technologies mostly from the emerging NoSQL world. The main challenge that these databases solve is how to handle… Continue reading
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Real Time Analytics for Big Data: An Alternative Approach
Lately, we’ve been talking to various clients about realtime analytics, and with convenient timing Todd Hoff wrote up how Facebook’s realtime analytics system was designed and implemented (See previous review on that regard here). They had some assumptions in design… Continue reading
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Real Time analytics for Big Data: Facebook’s New Realtime Analytics System
Recently, I was reading Todd Hoff’s write-up on FaceBook real time analytics system. As usual, Todd did an excellent job in summarizing this video from Engineering Manager at Facebook Alex Himel, Engineering Manager at Facebook. In this first post, I’d… Continue reading
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