The GridGain Systems In-Memory Computing Blog
Long ago, when Trees computers were large, and processors were single-core, all applications were started in one thread and did not experience synchronization difficulties. Modern applications, however, tend to use all available resources, in particular, all available CPUs.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to use standard data structures for multithreaded processing, so Java 5…
I’m really looking forward to next week’s webinar; essentially a getting-started in-memory computing primer for software architects and developers. The free one-hour event happens next Tuesday (Nov. 21) starting at 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern).
It’s titled, “In-Memory Computing Essentials for Architects and Developers: Part 1.” Denis Magda, GridGain’s director of product management…
Last week at Devoxx Belgium 2017, The Glue's Sven Beauprez demonstrated how to combine Apache® Ignite™ with Docker to build an event-driven microservices platform -- one that is dynamically reconfigurable with zero downtime.
"The pre-requisites for the platform are banking-grade NFRs such as Exactly Once Processing of requests, High Availability -- even in case of data center disasters- and…
With the In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2017 in the rearview mirror, let's take a look back at this two-day conference that explored the latest technology trends impacting enterprise computing and digital transformation.The 400 registrants – representing 200 organizations from 11 countries on five continents – were there to explore the future of in-memory computing (…
Recently, I've started seeing the names GridGain and Apache® Ignite™ popping up on the Internet more and more frequently. However, judging from some of the chatter I've seen in social media around these mentions, very few people understand either product -- let alone what each can be used for.
In this post, I will try to explain a little about both -- along with some examples.
Ignite vs…
Data terabytes, clusters for hundreds of machines, big data, high load, machine learning, microservices... and other scary words are all applicable to Apache® Ignite™. But this does not mean that it is not suitable for less ambitious goals.
Today, we'll look at how Ignite can easily store any of your objects, share them over the network, and provide .NET and Java interoperability.
We…
In this post I'll demonstrate how to improve a database's random write workloads by replacing regular SSDs with Intel® Optane™ SSDs powered by cutting-edge 3D XPoint™ technology.
What might be wrong with sustained random write workloads on good-old SSDs? Regular SSDs have to perform garbage collection routines endlessly by erasing blocks with stale data. Since any…
Are traditional storage's days numbered? The push is on to perfect an open-source technology that allows your applications to keep data in memory – shutdown the application and the machine – but the data will still be there when you need it.
Eric Kaczmarek will be talking about this topic in highly technical detail during his session next week at the In-Memory…
24 Hour Fitness, the world's largest privately owned and operated fitness center chain, is using distributed in-memory computing solutions to speed things up as well as decouple data from its database.
Craig Gresbrink, a solutions architect at 24 Hour Fitness, will be a featured presenter at the third-annual In-Memory Computing Summit North America -- Oct. 24-25 at the…
This article will walk through the steps required to get Kubernetes and Apache Ignite deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The local computer operating system used was Ubuntu and if you follow the steps in this article, you may need to adjust the commands as appropriate for your operating system and environment.
Preliminaries
In order to use AWS, it is necessary to have an account. If you do…