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Takeaway from Qcon Part I

December 10th, 2009

The Qcon conference in San Francisco has always been one of my favorite conferences. Floyd is doing a great job of bringing an interesting blend of people from across the spectrum of the industry (Java, .Net, Ruby) into one place….

Why Existing Databases (RAC) are So Breakable!

November 30th, 2009

One of the core assumption behind many of today’s databases is that disks are reliable. In other words, your data is “safe” if it is stored on a disk, and indeed most database solutions rely heavily on that assumption. Is…

It’s Complex to be Simple

November 17th, 2009

Avdi Grimm wrote an interesting post Simplicity is Complicated. Avdi bring few interesting points on how the term Simplicity is often abused to justify all sort of decisions. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” -…

Is Your Data Really Secured?

October 25th, 2009

Security has always been one of those topics that we as developers or architects hate to deal with. Our ideal world would be that security is dealt with at some higher level in our data-center, and that we don’t need…

GigaSpaces and GoGrid: Cloud Platform for Enterprise Applications

October 14th, 2009

I had few discussions in the past week with people who asked me about our recent GoGrid announcement and how our cloud offering integrates with the GoGrid environment. I’ll try to answer the most frequently asked questions below. In addition,…

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