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
We finally made this happen! I’m happy to invite all of the software architects and engineers out there to a series of webinars that will introduce you to the fundamental capabilities of in-memory computing platforms such as Apache Ignite. There will also be a mix of theory and practice. A lot of code examples are waiting to be shown so that you can... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:23AM Nov 17, 2017 by Denis Magda in General
Putting aside the regular bug fixes and performance optimizations, the Apache Ignite 2.3 release brings new SQL capabilities and Ignite persistence improvements that are worth mentioning. SQL Let's start with SQL first. Apache Ignite users have consistently told us that despite all of Ignite’s SQL capabilities, it’s been at times... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:12PM Nov 01, 2017 by Denis Magda in General
by Tom Diederich This is our third community update – there’s a lot going on, so let's get started. Apache Ignite experts have already spoken at two meetups this month, both in Silicon Valley, but there are several more scheduled this month around the world. On Sept. 9 Apache Ignite PMC chair Denis Magda was the featured presenter at... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:16PM Sep 15, 2017 by Denis Magda in General
by Tom Diederich Igniters, here are some community highlights from the last couple week. If I missed anything, please share it here. Meetups! Did you know that Apache Ignite experts are available to speak at your meetup? And we also have spots open for YOU to speak at the following meetups that some of us co-organize: Apache Ignite London ... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:52PM Aug 30, 2017 by Denis Magda in General
The power and beauty of in-memory computing projects are that they truly do what they state -- deliver outstanding performance improvements by moving data closer to the CPU, using RAM as a storage and spreading the data sets out across a cluster of machines relying on horizontal scalability. However, there is an unspoken side of the story. No matter how... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:13PM Jul 27, 2017 by Denis Magda in General