Archive for the 'Application Architecture' Category
An Open Letter to BEA WebLogic Customers
January 18th, 2008Dear BEA WebLogic Customer:
As you probably know, Oracle just announced it is acquiring BEA for $8.5 billion. Independent industry analyst Vinnie Mirchandani said about the deal: "Customers, unlike investors, do not have much to cheer." You are now facing a vendor that will put you in one of two situations:
They [...]
GigaSpaces Customers Speak-Up on LinkedIn
December 18th, 2007Gojko Adzic, who works at software consulting firm Neuri out of London, posted a question on LinkedIN: Are you using GigaSpaces in production? Gojko further asks: "What are your experiences with it? What are the pitfalls? What were the biggest benefits?"
Several of our customers and partners have weighed in with their responses and we [...]
TechTalk with Nati Shalom is now live on TheServerSide.com
December 16th, 2007Joe Ottinger from theserverside.com recently interviewed Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces' founder and CTO, and asked him about scalability issues faced by modern applications, and what does it mean to scale an application.
When scaling an application there are a few principles that need to be followed. GigaSpaces helps developers build applications with little or no code [...]
GigaSpaces Offers a Free Distributed Cache for Hibernate
November 14th, 2007With the latest release of GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 6.0.2 we've refined the integration with Hibernate, the object/relational persistence and query service.
Now the Hibernate integration can be used in two ways; One is to use GigaSpaces as 2nd level distributed cache, replacing the default caching solution that comes with Hibernate. The second way [...]
Excel that Scales - Grid Meets the Middle Office
May 16th, 2007
Andy Doddington of Bank of America discusses how the firm used GigaSpaces ' implementation of JavaSpaces technology to build a scalable trading analytics application for the middle office in the following paper City#Grid Special Report (Page 12)
Andy raises interesting points about common challenges we're seeing in middle office analytical applications built with Microsoft Excel:
"As [...]
