I just published “Considering Datastores” in the “articles” section of my blog, a piece discussing various data storage mechanisms and their strengths and weaknesses compared to each other.
New in XAP 7.0: Optimized concurrent access to external data source
One of the most common topologies of GigaSpaces is a cluster of spaces with an external data source and a mirror service, which persist the data to the data source asynchronously. This is commonly known as write behind. Using this topology removes the bottleneck that the data source can create due to the obvious performance
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JavaOne 2009 Lab – PetClinic in the Clouds
This 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
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