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TSSJS Prague: my take-aways
June 27th, 2008Once again TSSJS was a well-organized event with lots of interesting content. Hot topics that I took notice of were RIA, new languages, and obviously distributed computing and scalability. I arrived on Tuesday morning, which gave me a chance to…
InfoQ Article - RAM is the new disk…
June 24th, 2008Steven Robbins published an interesting article on InfoQ titled RAM is the new disk. In the comment thread, Steven Robbins quoted Tim Bray and others comparing file system performance to memory: Memory is the new disk! With disk speeds growing…
Meet us @ TSSJS Prague
June 16th, 2008TheServerSide has a good record of picking nice spots for their conferences, and this year’s Java Symposium in Prague is no exception. It’s looking to be a fun event, as I’m going to meet not just lots of old friends,…
Economies of Non-Scale
June 4th, 2008Scalability forces us to think differently. What worked on a small scale doesn’t always work on a large scale — and costs are no different. To measure the cost impact of scaling, let’s look at the amount of resources required…
Twitter as a scalability case study
May 17th, 2008So once again Twitter was down last week for a good chunk of time. A lot has been said already about Twitter’s scalability issues. Many have given Twitter as an anti-pattern of how not to deal with scalability and have…
Cool Projects on OpenSpaces.org
April 30th, 2008The OpenSpaces.org community site launched in January. I was surprise by the rapid adoption of OpenSpaces since then, with lots of interesting innovations on things I didn’t even think of. I’m sure that some of the projects will be very…
Nice article on Space-Based Architecture
April 28th, 2008I Just came across a very good article by Clara Ko summarizing the concept behind Space-Based Architecture on Java Pulse. The article is based on our recent white paper Scaling Spring Application In 4 Steps. Clara’s article is available here….
GigaSpaces Dashboard Using Hyperic plugin
April 21st, 2008Alexey Kharlamov created a project that implements a Hyperic plugin for GigaSpaces. It is available as an open source project on OpenSpaces.org. Hyperic is open source software for web infrastructure monitoring and management. Among its customers are Hi5 and Contegix….
Google App Engine - what about existing applications?
April 20th, 2008Recently, Google announced Google App Engine, another announcement in the rapidly growing world of cloud computing. The announcement led to an interesting discussion on InfoQ, which included topics such as which applications are appropriate for the cloud and issues of…
Scaling Out MySQL
March 29th, 2008With the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun, there has been talk about the MySQL open source database now becoming relevant to large enterprises, presumably because it now benefits from Sun’s global support, professional services and engineering organizations. In a…
Scaling out your tier based application in three steps - Now online
March 17th, 2008A while back I wrote Architecture You Always Wondered About: Lessons Learned at Qcon, where i summarized some of the lessons learned from the Amazon, eBay, Yahoo and LinkedIn architectures, which enabled them to address their scalability requirements. During that…
Moving to Extreme Transactions Processing using Lean methodology
March 3rd, 2008In one of my recent posts I used a production line analogy to describe the applicability of methodologies like “Lean” taken from production line optimization to transactional systems. As a reminder, here’s a good explanation about Lean from Amit Rathore’s…
