Archive for December, 2006

GigaSpaces 5.2 is out

December 27th, 2006

Three weeks after the release candidate we managed to get 5.2 out.
Just before new years.

Time to go and celebrate. For more information on 5.2 please refer to GigaSpaces web site, or to my previous post about the 5.2 RC.

Like a Virgin…

December 20th, 2006

It's been 6 years already that I've been preaching on Space Based Architecture, and its potential scalability and reliability.
We're now getting closer to the end of the sixth year and there is nothing better that I could have dreamed of than seeing Virgin Mobile's recent PR as a new year present. Not just for myself [...]

SBA FAQs – Integration and interoperability

December 20th, 2006

Integration and interoperability are often as crucial to an organization as low latency and scalability requirements. None of us want to use software that would take us months or even years to integrate in our current environments, force us to throw away all existing resources, and only work with a few applications in the organization [...]

SBA FAQs - Who and what is it for?

December 12th, 2006

There are a few questions about the Space based Architecture (SBA) that I frequently encounter. In this post I'd like to share with you the answers to some of them, in particular those about the type of applications that can best benefit from SBA, and how stateful applications can be part of that group.
SBA fits [...]

SBA’s General Principles

December 9th, 2006

After introducing to you space based architecture in my previous post, it is now time for some general principles of this approach.
Ready? Let's start with a visualization…

• Data maintained in reliable memory
• Condense messaging and data layers into ONE
• Business logic becomes loosely-coupled services that interact and share data through the Space

• Co-locate data, messaging, business logic

 
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Give Spring Some Space

December 8th, 2006

 We launched our Spring support last year and announced a commercial partnership with Interface21. Our joint project was done in close collaboration with one of the leading investment banks as an opensource initiative under the Spring modules project . (Success story on that part can be viewed in SpringONE 2006 event) This version is fully [...]

GigaSpaces 5.2 RC is out!

December 8th, 2006

After few night without proper sleep - I’m proud to say that GigaSpaces 5.2 RC is out.
Please refer to the release notes for a full description of the changes coming up.
Our next delivery is 5.2 GA - coming out by the end of the year.

We used scrum as our methodology for 5.2. It took us three sprints moving from 5.1 to 5.2. Over all, I’m very happy with the way we implemented scrum. We were able to show monthly incremental advancements and to constantly monitor both progress and quality. During this time the team was also able to respond to many customer requests coming in, and actually implement many of those in 5.2.

Some of the newest and coolest features of 5.2 are:

For a comprehensive list, please refer to the release notes.

I’m very proud of the team being able to execute in such great quality at this stressful time frame.

We have so many great plans for the future, and I believe we have found the balance between constant improvement of the little things to make our existing customers happy and moving forward with implementing on the Space Based Architecture road map.

Please feel free to try it out. Your feedback, as always is highly appreciated, and in this case extremely valuable for us to make 5.2 GA a great success.

I’m going to sleep the entire weekend, so until later …

Guy

Space Based Architecture in practice - Intro: A letter to the convinced :)

December 7th, 2006

A letter to the convinced?

Few weeks ago a colleague of mine Owen Taylor wrote an interesting blog – "a letter from me to the unconvinced" which triggered an interesting thread on the TheServerSide .  During the past year I had the honor to see many users and customers who simply get it!  I dedicate [...]