More feedback needed! Remote events coming to Hot Rod

With 7 votes already, remote event handling in Hot Rod is one of the most demanded features in Infinispan, and we've just started designing it. You can find out more about the design in this article and I've also started a Infinispan Development mailing list discussion in order to open a debate on this article.

Remember that remote event handling is the key piece that allows near-cache like patterns to be built in Infinispan and we know for a fact that this is one of the most demanded Infinispan patterns. So, if you have an interest in near caches, please provide any feedback you might have on the kind of event subscriptions and notifications you're interested.

To provide feedback, either comment on the linked article, or join Infinispan's Development mailing list and reply to the mail thread.

Cheers,
Galder

Cross-datacenter replication: your feedback is needed!

Hi,

Cross datacenter replication has been for a while one of the most requested features in Infinispan. In order to support this as good as possible we are looking for as many use cases that require this functionality. So if you've ever came to this problem or you think you will, or you simply feel like brainstorming about an interesting failover situation please add your comments here.

Thank you,
Mircea

Infinispan 5.1.1.FINAL is here!

As said earlier this week, based on the feedback we got, we decided to cut a point release in the 5.1 'Brahma' series, and following Tuesday's CR1 release, I'm really please to announce the release of Infinispan 5.1.1.FINAL. If you're using 5.1.0.FINAL or any other pre-releases, I'd strongly recommend that you upgrade to this version.

Full details of what has been fixed can be found here, and if you have feedback, please visit our forums. Finally, as always, you can download the release from here.

Cheers,
Galder

Infinispan 5.1.1.CR1 is out

Thanks to everyone that downloaded Infinispan 5.1.0.FINAL 'Brahma' in the last week. We've had tremendous feedback from the community and as a result we've decided to do a minor release called 5.1.1.CR1 to address the most important issues reported. So, if you're using 5.1.0.FINAL, I'd strongly recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible. We hope to do a FINAL release later on this week.

Please keep the feedback coming, and as always, you can download the release from here.

Cheers,
Galder

Manik's take on JUDCon India

JUDCon has, for the first time ever, spread beyond the western world. JUDCon India, held on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, was a roaring success with over 800 passionate community members flocking to the event held in Bangalore, India's answer to California's silicon valley.


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One of the themes was developer productivity and engagement, to help community members get more involved in the projects they care about, to help them succeed in their businesses with JBoss technology.

JBoss AS 7, NoSQL and platform-as-a-service were a few of the popular themes, and there were no less than 6 talks on infinispan in just two days, presented by myself and Galder Zamarreño. The talks ranged from high level overviews and roadmaps to detailed, hands-on hacking sessions, as well as presenting thoughts and ideas for future development.

All in, an excellent community conference, well organised by Saltmarch Media, and very well received by the community. I for one look forward to another JUDCon in Bangalore in the hopefully not too distant future.

Cheers
Manik


PS: After writing this, I noticed that Galder has blogged about JUDCon India too!

JUDCon India post-mortem

JUDCon India is finished now and I was hugely impressed with what I saw in the conference. First of all, it was by far the biggest crowd I've seen in a JUDCon event so that's excellent news. The more, the merrier :)

The attendants have been excellent and in general I felt that they were paying more attention than in conferences in other countries. This is partly because hardly any attendant had their laptops open while listening to the presentations. They simply had a notebook and a pen or pencil and they were taking just notes. I wished this would happen more often in other conferences. Hmmm, time to ban laptops in non-interactive presentations?

I ended up doing 4 presentations, 3 of them in Infinispan related topics and 1 talking about JBoss Polyglot. Of all, the one that I felt attracted the most attention was the one on near caches. I got a lot of positive feedback from attendants and very interesting questions at the end of the presentation.

In terms of organization, it was impecable. Wifi worked like a treat with around 7 access points, 3/4 of which you could join from any place in the conference. Food was good as well, if you like Indian cooking of course :). As I already said on Twitter, the toilets were... interesting for a westener :).

Finally, I must congratulate the organisers on the method used to motivate attendants to provide feedback on the presentations. To get the JUDCon t-shirt, attendants needed to fill in feedback forms for all presentations they had attended, and once the last presentation had finished, they could go and claim their t-shirt once they'd handed over the feedback forms. I thought this was a fantastic idea to increase the amount of feedback received. So, well done to organisers! Looking forward to reading the feedback now.

Just landed in Delhi and now waiting for my colleague Rado, who's arriving in a later flight from Bangalore. It's time now for a couple of days off and doing a bit of touristy stuff around here. Plenty to see and do in the next few days with the Republic Day military parade, visit the Red Fort, Taj Mahal...etc.

Cheers,
Galder

Infinispan 5.1.0.FINAL is finally here!!

After over 4 months of development, testing, profiling...etc, I'm extremely pleased to announce that Infinispan 5.1.0.FINAL 'Brahma' is out now! It comes with some very important brand new features such as:

• Optimistic vs pessimistic locking separation, single node locking and lock reordering
• Asymmetric cluster supports
• Fine-grained atomic maps

We've also implemented a bunch of improvements such as:

• Move to Stax XML parser and new programmatic configuration
• Hot Rod protocol 1.1 to provide better support for environments with virtual nodes enabled
• Startup performance
• Push-based state transfer for replicated caches

This has been a huge effort by all the Infinispan community including forum users, which have been giving us tremendous feedback, occasional community contributors and core developers. Thank you very much for all the effort you've put in!!

We've build a migration guide for anyone upgrading for 5.0.0.FINAL to 5.1.0.FINAL, so make sure you read it if you're upgrading.

As usual, download the release, provide feedback, read through the detailed changelog. And check out our documentation for this version too.

Cheers,

Galder