Category Archives: Application Performance

Benchmarking on the Cloud – Your Definitive Check List!

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Shay Hassidim

Introduction Evaluating a new software product usually involves running benchmark tests many times, to assess the different capabilities of the product using some measurable elements. Generally, the end result of such tests is a matrix that includes the product latency, … Continue reading →

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Ultra-Scalable and Blazing-Fast: The Sun Fire x4450-Intel 7460-GigaSpaces XAP Platform – 1.8 million operations/sec!

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Shay Hassidim

Introduction Over the past several years highly concurrent applications have faced some serious challenges when trying to scale on multi core machines. GigaSpaces scale-out-application server aims to solve this problem by freeing the user from dealing with the need to … Continue reading →

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Local Cache, Local View or Embedded Space? – GigaSpaces Data Access – How and Why

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Shay Hassidim

GigaSpaces includes several runtime options and API to access the IMDG. These includes: – Local Cache – Local View (available only for GigaSpace) – Embedded Space – Remote space Where the API to access your data could be GigaSpace API … Continue reading →

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You want it Fast or Super Fast? – The IB, 10GbE , GigE Benchmark

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Shay Hassidim

With the current global financial meltdown, the ability to effectively compete becomes essential. Faster data access and sharing are critical for business success. Speed is critical for beating the competition, translating into a need for better latency. With MW products … Continue reading →

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Scaling the Web Layer – The Web Container Benchmark

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Shay Hassidim

We have been working for the past few days on building a benchmark for our new web containers and its built-in integration with the apache load balancer. The benchmark was running on Amazon EC2/EBS cloud and was deployed using our … Continue reading →

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