Category Archives: Application Architecture

Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How?

Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How? Mainframe (Z/OS) based systems running COBOL programs are legacy systems in many organizations. These are planned to be replaced with low cost commodity servers running Java or .Net based systems, saving the … Continue reading

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Terracotta ehCache vs. GigaSpaces Cache benchmark

Are you Really using the Fastest and Most Scalable Cache with your Application? We are hearing lately reports from several accounts "discovering" that Terracotta ehcache is not the fastest and most scalable cache out there. GigaSpaces local cache actually performs … Continue reading

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Benchmarks, Caching, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, Java, JavaSpaces, OpenSpaces | 2 Comments

Real Time processing with IMDG and NoSQL session at the NYC meetup

I will be having a session about Real Time processing with IMDG and NoSQL DB on Thursday, July 28th, 6:30 PM at the NYC NoSQL meetup. The session will cover the following: In-Memory-Data-Grid usage with NoSQL DB in financial , telecom … Continue reading

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Schema evolution in XAP.NET 8.0.1

GigaSpaces XAP.NET 8.0.1 introduces a few cool new features such as SpaceDocument (code name: Docu.NET API) as well as dynamic properties. Roughly speaking, a SpaceDocument is a virtual document-like type that can be written and read from the space like … Continue reading

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Realistic Elastic

When running system in production, the last thing you want to do is to shutdown the system. This could happen when: – You need to replace one of the machines running the system. – You need to upgrade one of … Continue reading

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