Archive for the 'space-based architecture' Category
Sharing Results of Expensive Computations
March 25th, 2008A customer recently contacted us to discuss how to use GigaSpaces XAP to minimize the number of times an expensive computation must run. The particular domain is option price stress testing, but the problem is more general and the solution demonstrates a couple of interesting GigaSpaces XAP features.
Consider a service that executes an expensive [...]
Scaling out your tier based application in three steps - Now online
March 17th, 2008A while back I wrote Architecture You Always Wondered About: Lessons Learned at Qcon, where i summarized some of the lessons learned from the Amazon, eBay, Yahoo and LinkedIn architectures, which enabled them to address their scalability requirements. During that…
Underneath the Skin – What is the CPP Processing Unit and how can I build one?
March 1st, 2008I went to visit this extraordinary and shocking exhibition a few weeks ago - Bodies. It is located near pier 17 in Manhattan (not far from South Street Seaport, which I mentioned in my previous blog post).
See the links below for the exhibition site and a few videos: http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/intro.html http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/video/bodies-video-broadband-1.wmv http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/video/bodies-video-broadband-2.wmv
You can find the same [...]
Explaining to your boss (or your wife:)) why tier based architecture doesn’t scale
January 31st, 2008Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting at the NY JavaSIG. The event was hosted by an old friend, Frank Greco, who has been doing a really great work keeping the NY Java community up to date with…
I Am Legend - XAP 6.5 POCO C++ SBA Framework
January 23rd, 2008I'm not the Legend… the XAP 6.5 POCO C++ SBA Framework is the Legend
I was watching few days ago this amazing "I Am Legend" Movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/ on my Large Sony BRAVIA at my place in the freezing shiny Manhattan. See a nice trailer here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/trailers-me60407838
When watching Will Smith, alone by himself, on the [...]
