Tom Diederich

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Tom Diederich
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Former Director of Community Engagement
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Digital transformations are arguably the most important initiatives for companies. They can literally make or break a business. This transformation is not easy because there’s a big digital divide between the speed, scale and computing needed for new digital channels and APIs, and what existing systems can deliver. Wouldn't it be great if there was a roadmap that got you from start to finish?…
Making stream processing scale requires making all the components (including messaging, processing and storage) scale together. Easier said than done. Until now.  My colleague Rob Meyer, who is head of outbound product management, explained how in his Oct. 10 webinar, available for free playback here.  Rob, alongside GridGain professional services consultant Alexey Kukushkin…
Challenged with scaling stream processing for your organization? Then you'll want to register for our webinar, "Best Practices for Stream Processing with GridGain® and Apache® Ignite™ and Kafka." This free, live webinar is scheduled for Oct. 10 at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT). Register here. Making stream processing scale requires making all the components -- messaging, processing, storage -- scale…
GridGain's London-based technology evangelist Akma Chaudhri will deliver a live one-hour webinar Sept. 25 that will be of great value to anyone working with Big Data in a bank or financial institution. It's titled "Apache® Ignite™ + GridGain: powering up banks and financial institutions with distributed systems" and will start at 10 a.m. BST (that's 2 a.m. PDT and 5 a.m. EDT). Don't worry if…
With real-time streaming analytics there is no room (or time) for staging or disk. Denis Magda, GridGain's director of product management and Apache Ignite PMC chair, delivered an excellent webinar Sept. 12 detailing the best practices used for real-time stream ingestion, processing and analytics using Apache® Ignite™, GridGain®, Apache Kafka™, Apache Spark™ and other technologies. The webinar…
GridGain technology evangelist Akmal Chaudhri delivered the second webinar of his popular highly technical two-part series for software developers and architects on Aug. 28 titled, "In-Memory Computing Essentials for Architects and Developers: Part 2." This free webinar was recorded and is available for playback (and the slides for download) here. Akmal continued his introduction of more of the…
In-memory computing is a journey that requires up-front planning and preparation to complete. Companies often start with caching to add speed and scale to existing applications. But before you know it, you're building new hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) applications, new streaming analytics applications, or even starting to implement machine and deep learning. If you don't…
Learn how Kubernetes can orchestrate a distributed database or in-memory computing solutions using Apache® Ignite™ as an example. Denis Madga, GridGain's director of product management, took one of his most popular meetup talks and turned it into a webinar on July. And he recorded it! His talk is available for playback (along with his slides) here.   In-memory computing technologies such…
London-based FSB Technology (UK) Ltd., which provides real-time sports betting platforms as a fully-managed service, is relying on GridGain Enterprise Edition to ensure real-time performance and scalability of their PostgreSQL-based system in the face of rapid growth and extreme processing spikes. The complete case study can be here. “GridGain has enabled us to provide a high performance, highly…
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…
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…
My colleague Akmal B. Chaudhri presented a webinar earlier this week where he looked in detail at Apache® Ignite™ architecture's ACID-compliant transactional subsystem.  After watching his webinar, recorded below, you'll have a better understanding of why companies in many industries, including large banks and financial institutions, trust Apache Ignite and make it their platform of…