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Linear Scalability Does Exist, Ted

April 27th, 2008

I 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, 2008

A 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, 2008

The 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, 2008

Back 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, 2008

Geva 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…

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