Archive for March, 2007

Oracle Buys Tangosol - GigaSpaces’ Perspective

March 24th, 2007

Before I give my take on the Oracle-Tangosol acquisition , I want to first send a big congratulation to Cameron and the Tangosol team. This is a great personal achievement and I wish you all the best of luck in your new home.
Now to my analysis from a technological perspective: 
Oracle's acquisition of Tangosol is [...]

When you need more than just a Data Grid

March 24th, 2007

Last week I had the pleasure of spending half a day with the senior architects of one of the leading infrastructure software vendors. They are looking into embedding our product as a caching solution (aka Data Grid) for their next generation product lines. When we went through the list of requirements with the different [...]

Partitioning == Scalability, but what about aggregation?

March 24th, 2007

There are a couple of basic rules that you need to follow if you want to achieve true linear scalability in a stateful environment:

You need to reduce contention on the same data source
You need to remove dependency between the various units in your application. You can only achieve linear scalability [...]

SBA and J2EE Positioning Clarification

March 20th, 2007

When people first hear about Space-Based Architecture (SBA) one of their immediate reactions is - "Is it a replacement for J2EE?" Since J2EE is not necessarily only one thing (especially not today with all the recent developments in the likes of Spring, POJO's etc.) my answer is that SBA is both compatible with as well [...]

Meet GigaSpaces at TSSJS

March 20th, 2007

I'm looking forward to going to TheServerSide Java Symposium in Vegas this week. One of our leading architects, Shay Banon, is going to demonstrate how you can use GigaSpaces and Spring to build a transactional application that can scale dynamically over a pool of machines with a few simple steps. Shay's presentation will cover the [...]

GigaSpaces at QCon – Unveiling our upcoming 6.0 release

March 12th, 2007

This week is an exciting week for us. We're sponsoring QCon, organized by Floyd Marinescu and the folks at InfoQ , and have decided to take this opportunity and provide the community with an exclusive sneak preview to our upcoming 6.0 release. This release is very important for us as it is intended to [...]