Archive for category Cloud Computing
New Article: “Considering Datastores.”
Posted by dreamreal in GigaSpaces, Java, general on 19 April, 2010
I just published “Considering Datastores” in the “articles” section of my blog, a piece discussing various data storage mechanisms and their strengths and weaknesses compared to each other.
GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 being released Wednesday!
Posted by dreamreal in GigaSpaces, Java, general on 13 April, 2010
This Wednesday, GigaSpaces is releasing XAP 7.1 GA. XAP stands for “eXtreme Application Platform,” and we included a lot of functionality based around earning that kind of name. Well, more than we already did – we’ve always been leaders in scalability. Probably the most visible aspects of the new release are the technology previews, around [...]
GigaSpaces 7.1 Early Access – worth it, totally
Posted by dreamreal in GigaSpaces on 6 April, 2010
I’ve been enjoying being back at GigaSpaces, but one of the coolest of the various bits and bobs is the access to future releases – including the one right around the corner. Hint, hint *cough* 7.1 *cough* Dudes: if you’re interested in scalable cloud computing with distribution of both data and processing – you really, [...]
ID Generator Bean for GigaSpaces XAP
Posted by dreamreal in GigaSpaces, Java, general on 5 April, 2010
Shay Hasidim just published Global ID Generator, a global ID generator bean (surprise!) for GigaSpaces XAP, on the GigaSpaces Wiki. Good stuff. I prefer String ids, mind – and GigaSpaces can assign such itself, although there are good reasons to generate it pre-write.
It’s all about the boundaries, baby
Posted by dreamreal in Cloud Computing, Programming on 29 March, 2010
The key to distributed – and enterprise – computing is boundary management. Even worse, it’s not conceptual boundary management – it’s real boundary management, which is a lot harder to figure out.