Archive for the 'slow consumer' Category
Network latency vs. end-to-end latency
May 4th, 2007Geva 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 models. So it has become a latency game — low-latency, that is."
When it comes to [...]
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 [...]
