Archive for the 'Data Grid' 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 [...]
GigaSpaces based solution makes it to the finalist of Cisco Developer Contest
May 19th, 2009I was very pleased to read an email from Leonardo, who was the winner of the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge (a worldwide programming contest using the Gigaspaces application server which was held last year), saying that he is now a finalist…
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 [...]
Designing a Scalable Twitter
April 14th, 2009Guy Nirpaz, Uri Cohen and Shay Banon came up with an interesting exercise as part of the recent partner training that took place at the GigaSpaces office. In this exercise, the students were asked to come up with a scalable…
Writing your own real-time search engine and Adwords service
February 23rd, 2009There are various ways to implement a search engine. The typical way uses a crawler technique. The crawler continuously scans the information, collects changes and indexes them. The indexing service is a centerpiece in the architecture and enables quick matching…
