Tag Archives: XAP

Analytics for Big Data – Venturing with the Twitter Use Case

Performing analytics on Big Data is a hot topic these days. Many organizations realized that they can gain valuable insight from the data that flows through their systems, both in real time and in researching historical data. Imagine what Google, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Architecting Massively-Scalable Near-Real-Time Risk Analysis Solutions

Recently I held a webinar around architecting solutions for scalable and near-real-time risk analysis solutions based on the experience gathered with our Financial Services customers. In the webinar I also had the honor of hosting Mr. Larry Mitchel, a leading expert in the … Continue reading 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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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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GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 being released tomorrow!

This Wednesday, GigaSpaces is releasing XAP 7.1 GA. XAP stands for “eXtreme Application Platform,” and we included a lot of functionality based around earning that kind of name. Well, more than we already did – we’ve always been leaders in … Continue reading

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