Category Archives: sba

Network latency vs. end-to-end latency

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Nati Shalom

Geva Perry wrote an excellent blog on Extreme Transactions processing on wall street. "So basically you now have thousands and thousands of machines buying and selling stocks and other securities from other machines based on extremely complex (and automated) computer … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Caching, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, sba, slow consumer, space-based architecture | 8 Comments

Why browse when you can simply search?

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Nati Shalom

I 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Caching, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, JavaSpaces, sba, space-based architecture | 2 Comments

“Share Nothing Architecture” redefined

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Nati Shalom

"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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Grid, GigaSpaces, sba, Share Nothing Architecture, space-based architecture | 7 Comments

SBA and J2EE Positioning Clarification

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Nati Shalom

When 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Architecture, GigaSpaces, Java, sba, SOA, space-based architecture | 1 Comment

Slow Consumers in the Space Age

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Nati Shalom

A 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in GigaSpaces, sba, slow consumer, space-based architecture | 2 Comments