Category Archives: space-based architecture

How Map/Reduce and the Cloud are Affecting Analytics Applications

Two weeks ago I gave a presentation at the Sun HPCW workshop in beautiful Regensburg, Germany. It was a great chance to meet many of the folks from the Sun Grid Engine team face to face. It was also a… Continue reading

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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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Google App Engine plus Amazon AWS: Best of both worlds

George Lawton wrote a a good summary of my JavaOne talk in his article titled Google App Engine plus Amazon AWS: Best of both worlds Google App Engine (GAE) is focused on making development easy, but limits your options. Amazon… Continue reading

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