Category Archives: Application Architecture

Possible Impossibility – The Race to Zero Latency

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Shay Hassidim

I recently read a book called: "Physics of the Impossible" by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Dr. Kaku lists "Possible Impossibilities" and classifies these into different categories where all these "impossibilities" may happen in the near/distant future. When talking about "zero … Continue reading →

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new and modified best practices

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Shay Hassidim

Our best practices wiki is growing rapidly and full with good and useful material. Here are few new best practices added lately: - Finding Partition Load – routing data based on partition load. - Even Data Distribution – simple example explains how to evenly partition … Continue reading →

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Custom Matching-Two Dimensional Cartesian space Comparison using GigaSpaces

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Shay Hassidim

Usually you index and execute queries using primitive fields (long, float, string, etc). The fields may be within the root level of the space object, or embedded within nested objects within the space object. You may construct a query using … Continue reading →

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Moving into Production Checklist

Posted on December 26, 2009 by Shay Hassidim

You are about to complete your existing project , all the functionality is in place , all unit tests are passing , profiling done and there are no visible bottlenecks , benchmarks been executed and the system seems to scale … Continue reading →

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How Virtualized MW infrastructure works in the real world? – The operational Aspect

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Shay Hassidim

Last week I had an interesting "incident" that proved how much the operational aspects of a virtualized middleware platfrom GigaSpaces provide is critical for on-line systems. Here is the story: During the maintenance activities of one of the largest wall … Continue reading →

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