Category Archives: JavaSpaces

GigaSpaces Cloudify & VMware CloudFoundary the new PaaS Jailbreaker

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Nati Shalom

I was reading Krishnan Subramanian’s post, Two Events That “Clouded” Our Thinking In 2011. The thing that caught my attention was Krishnan’s comments on why PaaS is a superior alternative to DevOps: The shift in the thinking about the enterprise… Continue reading →

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Terracotta ehCache vs. GigaSpaces Cache benchmark

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Shay Hassidim

Are you Really using the Fastest and Most Scalable Cache with your Application? We are hearing lately reports from several accounts "discovering" that Terracotta ehcache is not the fastest and most scalable cache out there. GigaSpaces local cache actually performs … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Benchmarks, Caching, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, Java, JavaSpaces, OpenSpaces | 2 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 →

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New Article: “Considering Datastores.”

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Joe Ottinger

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. Continue reading →

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