Archive for the 'Caching' Category
JavaOne 2009 Lab - PetClinic in the Clouds
May 22nd, 2009This year JavaOne will include really cool lab - PetClinic in the Clouds: Scaling a Classic Enterprise Application.
In this Hands-on Lab, participants will take a popular Web application (the Spring PetClinic sample application) and modify it so that it can be deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. They will be exposed to [...]
Benchmarking on the Cloud – Your Definitive Check List!
May 13th, 2009Introduction
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, throughput or scalability values.
Such a matrix compares the product data feed, data retrieval or [...]
New Grid, HPC, Cloud book
February 27th, 2009A new book I co-authored has been released entitled “TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The aim of TheSavvyGuideTo book range is to get people up to speed as quickly as possible on the subject matter of the books.
Although the book covers a range of technologies it is a good read for anyone who wants a good concise overview of the HPC, Grid, Cloud space etc, whoever they are. Of course, GigaSpaces is covered in the book as well as many other vendors and technologies, which are all covered objectively.
Ultra-Scalable and Blazing-Fast: The Sun Fire x4450-Intel 7460-GigaSpaces XAP Platform - 1.8 million operations/sec!
February 9th, 2009Introduction
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 handle concurrency while building his distributed application.
For the last few weeks we ran a joint [...]
.NET local cache is out
December 17th, 2008On my previous post I've talked about the upcoming new local cache for .NET that introduces ultra fast caching performance.
http://blog.gigaspaces.com/2008/12/07/ultra-fast-local-cache-implementation-for-net/
This cache has now been released as part of our early access program for the upcoming 7.0 version. This implementation gives you the power of ultra fast, reliable and self healing distributed cache, combined with the GigaSpaces server application platform in one [...]
