Tom Diederich

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Tom Diederich
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Former Director of Community Engagement
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MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that has certain limitations when it comes to Big Data analytics. In this context, this post will delve into five key MySQL limitations that can be addressed by taking a modern approach to the data architecture. 1. Delivering Hot Data In large Big Data analytics applications, the data cache stored in RAM can grow very…
The Apache Ignite community is maintained by dedicated volunteers who manage a highly informative and well-designed website. This website is regularly updated with the latest news and information about the open-source project. A section of this content, found on the GridGain blog, provides an overview of Apache Ignite's basic concepts, facts, tips, and tricks. The goal of this blog post is to…
In a bid to speed the development and rollout of applications built on GridGain or Apache Ignite, GridGain Systems has just launched "GridGain Developer Bundles." These bundles include Support, Consulting and Training for GridGain Community or Enterprise Edition. The new Developer Bundles help companies implementing Apache® Ignite™ or GridGain speed the development and rollout of real-time,…
The GridGain Data Lake Accelerator, released today, is an in-memory solution for digital businesses that need to enrich operational data with historical data stored in data lakes to improve real-time analytics and decision automation. A data lake is a system or repository of data stored in its natural format, usually object blobs or files. A data lake is usually a single store of all enterprise…
With some 30 breakout sessions, the In-Memory Computing Summit Europe 2019, happening June 3-4 in London, is a must-attend learning event for data scientists across the region. For today’s blog post I had the chance to speak with one of the many in-memory computing experts who will be speaking there: Chris Jenkins, senior director of In-Memory Technology at Oracle. His talk is titled, “Cloud…
The In-Memory Computing Summit 2019 – Europe is just over two months away. One of the speakers is Hypi CTO Courtney Robinson. His session is titled, “Building a Graph Centric Platform on Apache® Ignite™” (June 4 at 11:55 p.m.).   Hypi is a serverless platform for accelerating application development. By providing a GraphQL data model, Hypi generates a CRUD API on the fly that can be extended…
For today's Apache® Ignite™ webinar we have a special guest presenter, Hypi CTO Courtney Robinson. Hypi is a serverless platform for accelerating application development. By providing a GraphQL data model, Hypi generates a CRUD API on the fly that can be extended with custom serverless functions. In his presentation, Courtney will explain Ignite's built-in support for full-text indexing of…
Join GridGain's VP of product management, Denis Magda (who is also VP of the Apache® Ignite™ PMC), for his live webinar on March 20 and learn the how to use Node.js with Ignite. Register here. Node.js is a very popular and powerful JavaScript runtime environment. It is lightweight and efficient and benefits from an extensive package ecosystem. Apache® Ignite™ (Ignite) is a memory-centric…
Join one of GridGain's seasoned Customer Success gurus this Wednesday at 11 a.m. Pacific for a free one-hour webinar, Troubleshooting Apache® Ignite™. This live event is for you regardless of whether you are just getting started with Apache® Ignite™ or are a seasoned user. Register here. Stanislav Lukyanov will be sharing some of the best practices that the GridGain® Customer Solutions team has…
Join Denis Magda on Feb. 13 for a free one-hour webinar during which he'll introduce and explain everything that's new in Apache® Ignite™  2.7. Released about two months ago, Apache Ignite  2.7 added Deep Learning and extended languages support. Register here. Denis Magda is Vice President of the Apache Ignite PMC and GridGain's VP of product management. Before joining GridGain, Denis worked for…
GridGain's Rob Meyer continues his series on in-memory computing best practices this Thursday when he'll be talking about digital transformation and why delivering a responsive digital business is not possible at scale without in-memory computing. The webinar is titled, "In-Memory Computing Best Practices: Developing New Apps, Channels and APIs" and I suggest registering now to reserve your spot…
RSVP now for our Dec. 12 webinar and learn how to complement a Relational DBMS for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) by leveraging the massive parallel processing and SQL capabilities of Apache Ignite. Details here. You'll also learn how to use Apache Ignite as an In-Memory Data Grid that stores data in memory and boosts applications performance by offloading reads from a…
Last week my colleague Valentin Kulichenko, lead architect at GridGain Systems recorded a webinar explaining how companies have been using Apache® Ignite™ to overcome today’s data challenges.  He demonstrated how companies have been using Ignite to add in-memory speed and unlimited horizontal scale to SQL with no rip-and-replace of the underlying database. The webinar, recorded Nov. 28, was…
Two Apache® Ignite™ experts will be delivering a couple of webinars tomorrow (Nov. 28)  – one explaining the nuances of Machine Learning with Ignite ML, and another documenting how to add speed and scale to SQL.   The great thing about GridGain webinars is that although they are live, interactive events, they are also recorded. So if you miss either of these, just register as normal even after…
Regardless of how mature a data storage technology is, backing-up data is a laborious and difficult task that can cost time, increase stress levels -- and even hit your bottom line. If this sounds familiar, my colleague --  GridGain senior software engineer Ivan Rakov -- hosted a webinar recently that details how to make discreet backups in a distributed environment.  His Nov. 21 webinar was…