Archive for May, 2007

GigaSpaces Blogging

May 31st, 2007

We've been thinking a bit about our approach to blogging at GigaSpaces lately. Our original thinking about this company blog was for it to be a group blog, similar to what the guys at Interface21 have been doing lately, and what the guys at JBoss and others have been doing. For whatever reason, it hasn't [...]

Wanna’ join us?

May 25th, 2007

Disclaimer: This post is a shameless recruitment effort!

Many great things are going on in GigaSpaces at the moment. Our upcoming 6.0 release has very new and interesting features. We had a call yesterday with a very important analyst who simply commented "Brilliant move". We’ve manage to accomplish a lot since 5.2 which we released in Dec 2006. In the nearest future we’ll publicly expose the content of 6.0 (right now you can register to the early access program).

Being a successful young company has it’s tolls. For once, I’ve not been able to post anything on my blog for a while since I’m constantly very busy with other burning issues. Hopefully, I’ll be able to manage the balance back a little bit further, down the road.

One of my major areas of concerns is growth. We’re constantly looking for efficient ways to increase GigaSpaces’ R&D throughput. One of the initial steps we took is to adopt agile methodologies, specifically Scrum. Now, that we have a very productive team, it seems like we’re maxing out the existing organization structure, and it’s time to grow again.

So, If you’re interested to work for a company that is innovative and you like being around brilliant people, and you have deep knowledge of (any or all): Java, Spring, Concurrency (concurrent data structures), Serialization, Networking, C++, .NET, Distributed Computing, Clustering Technologies, Caching, Grids. Please feel free to drop me a line or you can go directly to our web site and post your resume.

Cheers,

Guy

Excel that Scales - Grid Meets the Middle Office

May 16th, 2007

   
Andy Doddington of Bank of America discusses how the firm used GigaSpaces ' implementation of JavaSpaces technology to build a scalable trading analytics application for the middle office in the following paper City#Grid Special Report (Page 12)
Andy raises interesting points about common challenges we're seeing in middle office analytical applications built with Microsoft Excel:
"As [...]

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - and online:)

May 6th, 2007

For those who couldn't attend TheServerSide JavaSymposium event in Vegas a few weeks ago, you can find the presentation I gave together with GigaSpaces Senior Architect Shay Banon here:  From Tiers to Services without Web-Services: Scalable and Stateful Services for Non-Intrusive SOA. It gives a sneak preview of our upcoming OpenSpaces project ,which [...]

Network latency vs. end-to-end latency

May 4th, 2007

Geva Perry wrote an excellent blog on Extreme Transactions processing on wall street.
"So basically you now have thousands and thousands of machines buying and selling stocks and other securities from other machines based on extremely complex (and automated) computer models. So it has become a latency game — low-latency, that is."

When it comes to [...]