Archive for the 'sba' Category
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April 23rd, 2007I had interesting discussions in the past few weeks about the use of Object Graphs and how that approach maps into a space model. It reminds me of the discussions I use to have when I used Versant as an object database and object store in the late 90s. Object Graphs assume a certain hierarchy [...]
“Share Nothing Architecture” redefined
April 6th, 2007"Share Nothing Architecture" is a common pattern for scaling out Web applications.
Generally speaking, the idea is to remove dependency between the scaling units, which in the case of a Web application means the Web Servers. Once these units become independent from each other, you can easily scale them just by adding more units. You can [...]
SBA and J2EE Positioning Clarification
March 20th, 2007When people first hear about Space-Based Architecture (SBA) one of their immediate reactions is - "Is it a replacement for J2EE?" Since J2EE is not necessarily only one thing (especially not today with all the recent developments in the likes of Spring, POJO's etc.) my answer is that SBA is both compatible with as well [...]
Slow Consumers in the Space Age
January 4th, 2007A recent post on GigaSpaces in TheServerSide generated some interest in our new 5.2 feature , which allows handling slow consumers, so I thought I'd explain the issue in more detail.
Slow consumer is a term used to describe a state in which a publisher/writer can write faster then a consumer can receive messages. This situation can lead [...]
