Apache Ignite was always appreciated by its users for two primary things it delivers - scalability and performance. Throughout the lifetime many distributed systems tend to do performance optimizations from a release to release while making scalability related improvements just a couple of times. It's not because the scalability is of no interest.... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:17PM May 31, 2018 by Denis Magda in General
Usually, Ignite community rolls out a new version once in 3 months, but we had to make an exception for Apache Ignite 2.4 that consumed five months in total. We could easily blame Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays for the delay and would be forgiven, but, in fact, we were forging the release you can't simply pass by. Let's dive in... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:44PM Mar 15, 2018 by Denis Magda in General
As promised in my initial blog post on this matter, Apache Ignite community applied security patches against the notorious Meltdown Spectre vulnerabilities and completed performance testing of general operations and workloads that are typical for Ignite deployments. The security patches were applied only for CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) and ... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:36PM Jan 30, 2018 by Denis Magda in General
The world was rocked after the recent disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that literally affect almost all software ever developed. Both issues are related to the way all modern CPUs are designed and this is why they have opened unprecedented security breaches -- making the software, including Apache Ignite, vulnerable to... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:10PM Jan 08, 2018 by Denis Magda in General