Category Archives: J2EE

Cloudify for Azure

By now, if you’re following GigaSpaces, you should probably have heard about our new Cloudify for Azure offering. In this post I’ll try to provide a high level overview of what this offering is about, how it was conceptualized, and … Continue reading

Posted in Cloud, GigaSpaces, J2EE, Java | 2 Comments

Ultra-Scalable and Blazing-Fast: The Sun Fire x4450-Intel 7460-GigaSpaces XAP Platform – 1.8 million operations/sec!

Introduction Over the past several years highly concurrent applications have faced some serious challenges when trying to scale on multi core machines. GigaSpaces scale-out-application server aims to solve this problem by freeing the user from dealing with the need to … Continue reading

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Benchmarks, Caching, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, Hibernate, J2EE, Java, JavaSpaces, sba, SBA FAQs, Share Nothing Architecture, space-based architecture | 6 Comments

All you wanted to know about XAP 6.6 in 1 hour

Hi everyone, Next week, on December 16 @ 9 AM PT/ 12 PM ET/ 6 PM CET, Uri Cohen, our Product Manager, will host an online technical update and a LIVE demo of XAP 6.6.   Join us to this webinar … Continue reading

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How I Ported an Online Gaming Application from (Not-So-) Good-Old-JEE to GigaSpaces in Only 4 Days

I recently had the interesting challenge of moving a traditional JEE shop into the next generation of application server technology. You might be surprised to hear that the transformation took me only four days (two of them spent on Hibernate … Continue reading

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Integrating GigaSpaces persistency service into an existing tier based system

A common issue I’m facing recently is how to integrate existing tier based applications with GigaSpaces persistency service, AKA persistency as a service (Paas) or mirror . The motivation is often a result of the acknowledgment that a standard tier … Continue reading

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Caching, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, Hibernate, J2EE, Java, JavaSpaces, sba, SOA, space-based architecture | 2 Comments