Back from Madrid JUG and Codemotion Madrid!!

We've just come back from our trip to Spain and first of all, we'd like to thank everyone who attended our talks and workshops at Madrid Java User Group and Codemotion Madrid as well organisers and sponsors who made it possible!

We had a very hectic schedule, which started with a Red Hat double bill for Madrid JUG. Thomas Segismont started the evening with Vert.x talk and Galder followed up with a talk on how to do data analytics using Infinispan-based data grids.

In the data analytics talk, Galder focused on how to use distributed Java Streams to do analytics and also showed how to use Infinispan Spark connector when Java Streams are not enough. The distributed Java Streams demo he ran can be found here. The most relevant files of that demo are:

• Live coding instructions, follow them to do the same steps he did in the talk.
• Server task solution class using distributed Java Streams.

Galder also demonstrated how to use Infinispan Spark connector by showing the Twitter example. The slides from this talk (in Spanish) can be found here:


Next day on Friday, Galder gave a talk at Codemotion Madrid on working with streaming data with Infinispan, Vert.x and OpenShift. For the first time he was running it all on top of Google Cloud, so he could finally free up my laptop from running the demos and take advantage of the power of a cloud provider!

The demo can be found here where you can also find instructions on how to run it on top of Google Cloud. If you want to follow the same steps he followed during the talk, live coding instructions are here. The slides from this talk (in Spanish) can be found here:


Finally on Saturday we delivered the Streaming Data workshop at Codemotion Madrid. Once again, basing our workshop on top of Virtual Box still caused us some issues, but people managed to get through it. We have some plans for next year to avoid the need of Virtual Box, stay tuned!

We have added more detailed instructions on how to run the workshop in your office or at home, so if you're interested in going through it, make sure you check these steps and let us know how they work for you:

This trip to Madrid wraps up a very intense year in terms of promoting Infinispan! Next month we'll be doing a recap of the talks, videos...etc so that you can catch up with them in case you missed any of them :)

Katia & Galder
Un saludo!

Infinispan and Vert.x coming to Codemotion Spain and Madrid JUG

I'm happy to announce that Infinispan and Eclipse Vert.x team members are in Madrid (Spain) this week!

The 23th of November, Galder (Infinispan) and Thomas (Vert.x) will be presenting at Madrid Java User Group two talks about Infinispan and Ver.x. From my side, I've been invited to give a talk about programming career path to Computer Science and Engineering students in the Universidad San Pablo CEU. 

The following days, 24th and 25th of November, Codemotion Spain will take place in Madrid. Codemotion is the biggest developer centric conference in Spain. More than 1.500 people will be attending this year. The conference does not focus on any particular technical stack. You can learn about mobile, web, front-end, back-end, devops and there are some inspirational tracks too during the two days of the conference.

On Friday, Galder will be presenting a talk about Streaming and BigData architecture. Thomas will be presenting "Better performance on server side with HTTP/2" and I will join a debate around Enterprise Culture, where I will give my insights about RedHat's Culture.
On Saturday we will run our Streaming Data Workshop: a hands on lab that showcases a simplified streaming architecture built on top of Infinispan and Vert.x and running on OpenShift. If you cannot attend any of these events, you can always do the workshop at your self peace.

We hope to see you in Madrid, or anywhere else in 2018!!

Cheers,
Katia 

Hotrod clients C++/C# 8.2.0.Alpha2 are out!

Dear Infinispanners,

we're pleased to announce the C++ and C# 8.2.0.Alpha2 releases.

Code for continuous queries (CQ) and SASL is almost complete. Worth mentioning improvements for Alpha2 are:

• added xunit framework for build verification testing (googletest)
• CQ for C#
• EXTERNAL mech for SASL on windows (C++ and C#)
• more bugs resolved than added :)

Check the release notes, browse the source code (C++, C#) or just download and try it!
Cheers,
The Infinispan Team

Merci Duchess et Devoxx!

We've had two very hectic weeks delivering the Infinispan/Vert.x/OpenShift Streaming Data workshop in Duchess France and Devoxx Belgium. First of all, thanks to all attendees for taking the time to attend this workshop and working through it, thanks Duchess and Devoxx for letting us present the workshop, and thanks the sponsors for making it happen!

In case you want to walk through the workshop at your own pace, the version of the workshop delivered at Duchess and Devoxx can be found here. The slides from the workshop can be found here.

The aim of the workshop was to show how to work with multiple data streams and combine them in interested ways. These two streams of data came from Transport API at OpenData.ch and SBB.ch respectively. The end-game of the workshop was to see to combine both sets of information to produce a map that tracked positions of delayed trains around Switzerland.

On 2nd November we did a dry run of the workshop in the Duchess France group. This was a very compact group of people, around 10-12, which gave us thve first taste of what it was like to work through it. In particular, we realised that getting Virtual Box to run on each attendees laptop took some time to get working. From the workshop perspective, we found that the exercises themselves were a bit too long for the people to complete.

With all the invaluable input, Katia, Thomas and myself got ready for delivering the workshop at Devoxx Belgium, one of the top developer conferences in Europe. The pressure was on! We had ~60 attendees, so we had to make sure everyone could progress.



At Devoxx, we were more prepared to help out with set up problems, so everyone got to the starting point much faster. After working through the initial exercise to get used to Infinispan, Vert.x and OpenShift, attendees got on with the workshop itself.

During the workshop exercises, the learnt about Infinispan's in-memory data grid capabilities, and in particular about continuous query which is very well suited for feeding data to live updating maps or dashboards. They also learnt about how easy it is to build reactive applications with Vert.x and RxJava. Finally, they learnt how to deploy applications to OpenShift, how to monitor their progress...etc.

A majority of Devoxx attendees managed to get to the end of the workshop which was a success for us, but we listen to their feedback and we will continue to improve the content and delivery as we prepare for Codemotion Madrid where we are delivering the workshop once again.

Thanks attendees, Devoxx, Duchess and sponsors!!

Cheers,
Galder

Infinispan 9.2.0.Beta1 and 9.1.3.Final have been released

Dear Infinispan Community,

Two new releases are ready for you today, our newest and greatest 9.2.0.Beta1 and an updated Final of our stable branch, 9.1.3. Both can be found as usual on our download page.

The highlights of 9.2.0.Beta1 are:

• New API for querying using Ickle via the REST server, taking advantage of the JSON/Protobuf interoperability [ISPN-8113].
• Clustered Locks, first experimental release. A ClusteredLock is a data structure used for concurrent programming between Infinispan instances in cluster mode.
• Clustered Counters have received serveral improvements. It's now possible to manage your counters via JMX [ISPN-7926] and other management methods are on the way. The strong counter has a new method: compare-and-swap [ISPN-8489]. If you used compare-and-set, the compare-and-swap may improve your code performance. And last but not least, a new sync() method was added to the strong and weak counters, useful if you don't want to handle the CompletableFuture!
  
• Clustered Cache Configuration: Both EmbeddedCacheManager and RemoteCacheManager now have an API for creating/removing caches across the cluster [ISPN-7776]. Caches created with this API will also be created on any new members that will join the cluster. Additionally, the configuration for caches created in this way can be made persistent so that they are automatically recreated when a cluster restarts.
• Server deployment of Lucene analyzers for remote query [ISPN-7714].
  

9.1.3.Final and 9.2.0.Beta1 both add several Off-heap improvements and fixes.

Full details of the new features and enhancements included in these two releases can be found here and here.

We have even more exciting stuff coming up for Infinispan 9.2. Thank you for following us and stay tuned!

The Infinispan Team