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7.0.1 – One giant step for XAP.NET

Even though 7.0.1 is considered a minor version, when it comes to XAP.NET, it offers very powerful set of new features which improve the initial user experience, better monitoring capabilities and most importantly, exposing remote services over the grid. I … Continue reading

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The Master-Worker Pattern

The Master-Worker Pattern (sometimes called Master-Slave pattern) is used for parallel processing. It follows a simple approach that allows applications to perform simultaneous processing across multiple machines or processes via a Master and multiple Workers. In GigaSpaces XAP, you can … Continue reading

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No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam My Take

Eric Lai published a provoking article on Computerworld magazine titled “No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam” where he pointed to many references in which different Internet-based companies chose an alternative approach to the traditional SQL database. The write-up was… Continue reading

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Space Task and Distributed Space Tasks also known as Map Reduce in XAP.NET

7.0 XAP.NET GA will provide a new powerful capability, known as space tasks. A space task is a custom user code representing a logical task that is executed at the space behind the proxy and returns its result to the … Continue reading

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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

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