Archive for the 'Application Performance' Category
How I Ported an Online Gaming Application from (Not-So-) Good-Old-JEE to GigaSpaces in Only 4 Days
July 24th, 2008I recently had the interesting challenge of moving a traditional JEE shop into the next generation of application server technology. You might be surprised to hear that the transformation took me only four days (two of them spent on Hibernate issues!). The application was an online gaming application, originally implemented in EJB 2.0 and running [...]
Integrating GigaSpaces persistency service into an existing tier based system
April 23rd, 2008A common issue I’m facing recently is how to integrate existing tier based applications with GigaSpaces persistency service, AKA persistency as a service (Paas) or mirror . The motivation is often a result of the acknowledgment that a standard tier based application fails to scale when facing the database throughput limitation.
Software Caching technologies (overlooking their [...]
Sharing Results of Expensive Computations
March 25th, 2008A customer recently contacted us to discuss how to use GigaSpaces XAP to minimize the number of times an expensive computation must run. The particular domain is option price stress testing, but the problem is more general and the solution demonstrates a couple of interesting GigaSpaces XAP features.
Consider a service that executes an expensive [...]
.Net Customer Announcement: Susquehanna (SIG)
March 11th, 2008In the past few months we've made several exciting announcements, such as our partnership with SpringSource , the expansion of our executive team, the launch of our community site OpenSpaces.org , the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge and the Start-Up Program . But there is nothing like a customer announcement, as in today's press release [...]
GigaSpaces Customers Speak-Up on LinkedIn
December 18th, 2007Gojko Adzic, who works at software consulting firm Neuri out of London, posted a question on LinkedIN: Are you using GigaSpaces in production? Gojko further asks: "What are your experiences with it? What are the pitfalls? What were the biggest benefits?"
Several of our customers and partners have weighed in with their responses and we [...]
