Archive for the 'space-based architecture' Category
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…
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….
Integrating GigaSpaces persistency service into an existing tier based system
April 23rd, 2008A common issue I’m facing recently is how to integrate existing tier based applications with GigaSpaces persistency service, AKA persistency as a service (Paas) or mirror . The motivation is often a result of the acknowledgment that a standard tier based application fails to scale when facing the database throughput limitation.
Software Caching technologies (overlooking their [...]
Sharing Results of Expensive Computations
March 25th, 2008A customer recently contacted us to discuss how to use GigaSpaces XAP to minimize the number of times an expensive computation must run. The particular domain is option price stress testing, but the problem is more general and the solution demonstrates a couple of interesting GigaSpaces XAP features.
Consider a service that executes an expensive [...]
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…
Underneath the Skin – What is the CPP Processing Unit and how can I build one?
March 1st, 2008I went to visit this extraordinary and shocking exhibition a few weeks ago - Bodies. It is located near pier 17 in Manhattan (not far from South Street Seaport, which I mentioned in my previous blog post).
See the links below for the exhibition site and a few videos: http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/intro.html http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/video/bodies-video-broadband-1.wmv http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/video/bodies-video-broadband-2.wmv
You can find the same [...]
Explaining to your boss (or your wife:)) why tier based architecture doesn’t scale
January 31st, 2008Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting at the NY JavaSIG. The event was hosted by an old friend, Frank Greco, who has been doing a really great work keeping the NY Java community up to date with…
I Am Legend - XAP 6.5 POCO C++ SBA Framework
January 23rd, 2008I'm not the Legend… the XAP 6.5 POCO C++ SBA Framework is the Legend
I was watching few days ago this amazing "I Am Legend" Movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/ on my Large Sony BRAVIA at my place in the freezing shiny Manhattan. See a nice trailer here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/trailers-me60407838
When watching Will Smith, alone by himself, on the [...]
Excel That Scales: The Movie
January 18th, 2008Back in June of last year I wrote about our partnership with Microsoft and our plans to work together on a solutions for scaling out computations on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Since then Microsoft and us both released joint material (see…
What a year!
January 5th, 2008For the past few days I’ve been trying to write a 2007 summary, but I found this task to be extremely difficult because so many things happened this year on so many fronts. I thought that it would probably be…
GigaSpaces Customers Speak-Up on LinkedIn
December 18th, 2007Gojko Adzic, who works at software consulting firm Neuri out of London, posted a question on LinkedIN: Are you using GigaSpaces in production? Gojko further asks: "What are your experiences with it? What are the pitfalls? What were the biggest benefits?"
Several of our customers and partners have weighed in with their responses and we [...]
The Missing Piece in Virtualization: Middleware Virtualization
December 18th, 2007Nati Shalom recently wrote The Missing Piece in Cloud Computing: Middleware Virtualization. In this blog, Nati talks about the role middleware should play in making it simple to build applications to run on the cloud and he introduces the concept…
