Archive for the 'Data Grid' Category
Linear Scalability Does Exist, Ted
April 27th, 2008I enjoyed reading Ted Dziuba’s I’m Going to Scale My Foot Up Your Ass, I really did. I like the ‘tude and I like the style of writing. Reminiscent of the BileBlog (RIP), which some of my colleagues think is…
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 [...]
Oracle aquisition of BEA - The kiss of death for the “open” J2EE App Server
January 18th, 2008The claim to fame of the J2EE application server market was the ability to define a standard platform for running business applications, and then have multiple vendors competing on providing the best implementation of that standard. Oracle’s acquisition of BEA…
Excel That Scales: The Movie
January 18th, 2008Back in June of last year I wrote about our partnership with Microsoft and our plans to work together on a solutions for scaling out computations on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Since then Microsoft and us both released joint material (see…
TuneWiki scale-out architecture
January 11th, 2008Geva Perry, and Jim Liddle wrote nice posts about the work that was done by our partner GridDynamics to scale-out TuneWiki using GigaSpaces. “GridDynamics is a GigaSpaces partner, headed by Victoria Livschitz, that has been doing tremendous work around our…
