Archive for the 'Share Nothing Architecture' Category

Benchmarking on the Cloud – Your Definitive Check List!

May 13th, 2009

Introduction
Evaluating a new software product usually involves running benchmark tests many times, to assess the different capabilities of the product using some measurable elements. Generally, the end result of such tests is a matrix that includes the product latency, throughput or scalability values.
Such a matrix compares the product data feed, data retrieval or [...]

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

February 9th, 2009

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 handle concurrency while building his distributed application.
For the last few weeks we ran a joint [...]

“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 [...]