Join us in Menlo Park July 17 for the next Bay Area In-Memory Computing Meetup! We’ll have three interesting and informative talks, great food and awesome raffle prizes.  This is a free event but space will be limited. Be sure to register now to reserve your spot.  Talk 1:  “Cloud deployment best practices,” with Greg Stachnick, director of product management at GridGain Systems. Abstract:…

The In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2019 is happening Nov. 13 and 14 at the Hyatt San Francisco Airport. Tickets are available now at the “Super-Saver” price of $399 but 5 alert readers of this blog post will snag a full-access pass for FREE! Just visit the conference registration page and click the “Enter Promotional Code” hyperlink. Then type in “TomVIP” (no quotes) and you’ll be able…

After a long holiday weekend, our GridGain experts are gearing up for more events next week. We’re scheduling the next Bay Area In-Memory Computing Meetup for July 17 and the NYC In-Memory Computing Meetup for July 25. I'll share details on those later this week. In the meantime, here's a recap of a very busy last week of June.  Monday, June 24: Bay Area In-Memory Computing Meetup. GridGain’s…

Join GridGain's Denis Magda July 24 at 11 a.m. Pacific to learn how Apache® Ignite™ and GridGain® -- as an in-memory computing platform -- can modernize existing data lake architectures, enabling real-time analytics that spans operational, historical, and streaming data sets. Register now for this free, live event. A data lake is a system or repository of data stored in its natural/ raw format,…

My colleague Denis Mekhanikov, client service lead at GridGain Systems, will lead a free one-hour webinar on July 31 that will give you the tools and knowhow needed to add a distributed in-memory computing cluster to support existing systems or new APIs. The webinar starts at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Register here.  Adding a distributed in-memory computing cluster is actually much easier than it…

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,…

It’s hard to imagine that it’s been over 20 years since MySQL was created. There has been a lot of innovation and acquisitions since then, as well as consolidation of many MySQL options: Alzato Tech, the original NDB Cluster technology, was aquired by MySQL AB in 2003 InnoDB, the main storage engine for MySQL, was acquired by Oracle in 2005 Percona released Percona Server for MySQL in 2006…

I'm proud to announce the launch of the GridGain Forums! In addition to fostering peer-to-peer discussions, the Forums are designed to connect our experts with users of GridGain software. The Forums also connect the larger in-memory computing community by creating a dedicated discussion and file-sharing space for attendees of the In-Memory Computing Summits and members of the various In-Memory…

Join us in Copenhagen on June 20 for a gathering of the Data Natives Big Data Copenhagen Meetup. GridGain's Yuriy Babak will deliver a talk titled, "Distributed Machine and Deep Learning at Scale with Apache Ignite." "With most machine learning and deep learning frameworks, it can take hours to move data for ETL, and hours to train models, Yuriy explained. "It's also hard to scale with data sets…

MySQL is arguably the most widely used open source database in the world, even if you don't include MariaDB or Percona as a variant. But it has a host of challenges and options to solve them. Learn how companies have added speed and scale to MySQL deployments for different use cases. This webinar will cover the various options available and when each option makes sense. It will also cover how to…