Back from Devoxx

This year - as always - Devoxx was a great conference! Not only the quality of the presentation (including quite some delivered by my fellows from Red Hat)  but also the chance to meet and discuss with industry experts. And the Hackergarten was one of the this great networking places.
We had a long chat with Marius Bogoevici on a nice extension of the Ticket Monster Tutorial for Infinispan, so that users looking for an sample integration application would have a good starting point. Also Duncan Doyle  contributed a nice demo of the cross-site replication functionality added in Infinispan 5.2 and Guillaume Scheibel implemented a Mongo DB cache store extension: awesome stuff!
All in all great conference and very good chance for us to get in touch with our community!
Cheers,
Mircea

Infinispan 5.2.0.Beta4 is out!

5.2.0.Beta4 contains a handful of fixes around mainly around Map/Reduce and Non-Blocking state transfer functionality. For a detailed list of all the issues fixed please refer the release notes.

You can download the distribution or the maven artifact. If you have any questions please check our forums, our mailing lists or ping us directly on IRC!

Cheers,
Mircea

Infinispan @ Devoxx 2012 Hackergarten

Just came back from Devoxx, and once again it didn't let me down! Great conference, with awesome talks, and fantastic networking opportunities (hackergarten, party...etc). As far as Infinispan is concerned, I joined the Hackergarten on Tuesday morning to try lure some contributors into our project :).

One of the most promising opportunities came from Alex Soto, who's founder and lead of NoSQLUnit, which is a JUnit extension that helps you write NoSQL unit tests. He already has support for a number of NoSQL engines and he was explaining me the challenges of supporting multiple engines. We also discussed the possibility of supporting Infinispan as well :D.

During the Hackergarten I also met Andrés Almiray, which is the Griffon founder, and we briefly discussed the possibility of adding integrating Infinispan's Hot Rod client with Griffon clients. Unfortunately we didn't have time to get into some coding, but since he lives close-by and he organises Hackergartens in Basel, I might pop in next time around and sit down with him to work on this integration :).

Can't wait for next Devoxx!!

Cheers,
Galder

Devoxx here we come!

If you're interested in data grids and especially in general and measuring data grids performance in particular then come to my presentation at this year's Devoxx.

Manik Surtani is getting funny (literally!) with a gig suggestively named "Will you Map/Reduce my cloud" and Galder Zamarreno brings the polyglot JBoss at Devoxx.

We'll also be around the Red Hat boot in case you want to have an Infinispan related discussion or just to say hi.

Cheers,

Mircea

Infinispan coming to JUDCon China 2012

The Infinispan team will be well represented in the forthcoming JUDCon China 2012 conference to be celebrated in Beijing on the 29th and 30th of November with no less than 9 talks!

We'll be covering all sorts of topics:
- Building transactional Infinispan applications
- Performing rolling upgrades for Infinispan based cluster
- Scaling Hibernate/JPA applications using Infinispan-based second level cache
- Effective querying of Infinispan data grids
- Measuring performance of data grids
- ...etc

So, if you're interested in data grids, caching or Infinispan, come and join us!! It's gonna be a fun a couple of days. Can't wait :)

Cheers,
Galder