Category Archives: Development

Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How?

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Shay Hassidim

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 →

Posted in Application Architecture, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, sba, SOA, space-based architecture, Spring Framework | Leave a comment

Realistic Elastic

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Shay Hassidim

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 →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, Java, sba, space-based architecture | 1 Comment

Using Selenium at GigaSpaces

Posted on February 10, 2011 by elip

How we integrated our distributed testing framework with Selenium for automating our Web UI testing GigaSpaces XAP – as a distributed application platform and data grid – has some unique and interesting testing requirements. I’d like to explain how we … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, SCRUM, Selenium, Web UI | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Benchmarks, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, Development, Events, GigaSpaces, Java, JavaSpaces, OpenSpaces, sba, space-based architecture | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in .Net, Application Architecture, Application Performance, Benchmarks, Caching, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, Java, JavaSpaces, OpenSpaces, Share Nothing Architecture, space-based architecture | Leave a comment