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Running Simple GigaSpaces Apps with Groovy

In a few of my posts, I provide bits and pieces of code as samples of how you can do things with GigaSpaces. After looking at the Quartz Scheduler quickstart, I realized that I was violating my own principles of how to show things online – by not providing clear processes and full example code.
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Mirroring GigaSpaces XAP to NoSQL

Ah, caches[0]. Caches are easy to use, but not always easy to load; what typically happens is that you modify your reads and writes to check a cache first (using data from the cache if present, and loading the cache if not; updates store data in the cache as well as the data store, in [...] Continue reading

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GigaSpaces XAP’s WAN Gateway

In a distributed environment, if you can’t send data from one peer to another peer, you’re… not actually distributed. It’s one of the first things shown to users of distributed products, with good reason: sharing data is the whole point, right? If you can’t synchronize between peer nodes in a given cluster, you’re not really [...] Continue reading

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Big Data Application Platform

It’s time to think of the architecture and application platforms surrounding "Big Data" databases. Big Data is often centered around new database technologies mostly from the emerging NoSQL world. The main challenge that these databases solve is how to handle… Continue reading

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Scaling All the Way: Running Scala Applications on GigaSpaces XAP Platform

Scala, the “scalable language”, is the hottest thing in the programming languages world these days. You may have thought that innovation these days only happens in dynamic scripting languages. Or you may have thought that Java and .Net cover all … Continue reading Continue reading

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