Building an application today involves so many parts. Most of the times it starts with: "it's only a classic 3 tiers application...".
Few months down the road you find yourself trying to understand how the hell this fu$%#$@ C++ engine is going to fit in, the .NET client is going to interact with your java based server and how the hell is it really going to work in production?
I'm proud to say that I lead one of the teams that allowed this a amazing solution (I'm impartial as I can be) to reborn.
I'm talking about GigaSpaces 6.5.
A short history lesson for those who are not a GigaSpaces groupies.
Started as an “In Memory Data Grid” vendor targeting the main scale issue – data layer access.
Few years later it became a leading vendor in Wall Street, eliminating huge obstacles on the way and gaining enormous amount of experience.
Jumping to the present GigaSpaces new version is so much more than a "coherent cache" it's a full Next-Generation-Application-Server.
I'll write more about the neat new features in my next posts, but I can say that the answer for the mess from the first paragraph is now trivial.
Now you can use your C++ original data model engine, process it in a distributes spring based cloud and present it in your browser and .Net client without forcing you to gum-patch dozen of different products.
And you can test it all on Amazon cloud to get a real sense on how is it going to look before you send your IT‘s guys to buy a load of junk.
