1.Follow the performance queue theory when tuning. The bottom line here is to efficiently balance the availability of system resources vs. the work to be done for optimal application response time. The rule of thumb followed is the amount of requests that can be processed at the Web Server tier must be higher than the [...]
Gnip launched v2.0 yesterday with some enhancements and a pricing model. The pricing model is based on chargeback model as I speculated when I first wrote about them here. For those of you who don’t know about Gnip, Gnip notifies changes to the data that you are interested in, on an endpoint you [...]
Background
Message Queuing (MQ) middleware technology makes integration of services simple. For example MQ allows services to communicate in a flexible way by abstracting the connection details of the target service, data format and the underlying integration protocol. MQ allows the developers to build services focusing on the business logic rather than the integration [...]
Gigaspaces is one of the leading vendors, providing solutions to overcome the limitations of application performance/scaling due to bottlenecks at the database level or due to the application architecture following a tier based approach.
Gigaspaces received a series C funding of $ 5 million, lead by BRM capital, raising the total to $13 million. [...]