Consider you are building a financial back-office trade processing application. Trades are flowing in from the front-office system. To cope with the velocity and volume of the trades you want to use in-memory processing. The trades are usually settled no
The Open PaaS Stack
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DevOps Meets PaaS from NY Meetup with Chef
DevOps Meets PaaS – NY Meetup with Chef (OpsCode) If you missed out on the live version, catch Uri Cohen's presentation with OpsCode at the DevOps PaaS Infusion Meetup NY on June 19th. Session abstract: The concept of DevOps
Live Streaming: Upcoming Meetup – Big Data on OpenStack
Hi All, For those who can't make it out to our meetup on Thursday in San Francisco – Big Data on OpenStack, we will be streaming it live here in this post (barring any technical difficulties), so stay tuned.
Join us for a stellar line-up of events!
DeployCon 2012 June 13th, 2012 | 4:15 PM ET Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York, NY (Map) Ask us about free passes! We still have some available. Join Guy Korland, our VP R&D, at DeployCon 2012, where he
Terabyte Elastic Cache clusters on Cisco UCS and Amazon EC2
Overview Last week I was working on a new opportunity. The prospect needs to store 1 Terabyte of data in memory to address scalability challenges and were interested in using GigaSpaces. I was tasked with creating a demonstration of this
Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How?
Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How? Mainframe (Z/OS) based systems running COBOL programs are legacy systems in many organizations. These are planned to be replaced with low cost commodity servers running Java or .Net based systems, saving the
Building Cloud Applications the Easy Way Using Elastic Application Platforms
Patterns, Guidelines and Best Practices Revisited In my previous post I analyzed Amazon’s recent AWS outage and the patterns and best practices that enabled some of the businesses hosted on Amazon’s affected availability zones to survive the outage. The patterns
Retrospect on recent AWS Outage and Resilient Cloud-Based Architecture
According to the television series “Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles”, Skynet computer system began its attack against humanity on April 21, 2011. Luckily that hasn’t happened (or has it?) but on that very day another predominant computing system provided us
Distributed Java Application Deployment – 1 … 2 … 3
Cloud platforms (such as Google App Engine and Windows Azure) offer a simple deployment experience. Just upload your code, and the cloud takes care of the rest. GigaSpaces XAP v8 brings this user experience without the cloud vendor lock-in. Your