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

Infinispan coming to India!!!

Next week Manik and I will be representing the Infinispan contingent at JUDCon India in Bangalore and we have plenty to talk about:

 Tuesday, 24th January

• Infinispan: The Path Ahead - Manik 
• Extreme Performance and Scalability with Infinispan Near Caches - Galder
• Building a Transactional, Scaled Application Using Infinispan and Java EE - Galder

Wednesday, 25th January

• Technical Deep-dive with Infinispan - Manik
• Eventual Consistency in Infinispan - Manik
• Infinispan In 50 Minutes - Galder

Finally, to top it up, I'll be doing a presentation on JBoss' Polyglot revolution!

This is going to be my first visit to India and I'm very excited to be presenting at this conference :). Looking forward to meeting developers, architects and in general, anyone interested in data grids and various NoSQL technologies next week.

Cheers,

Galder

Infinispan 5.1.0.CR4 is out!

Over the past week we've been busy profiling Infinispan, in particular we've been trying to maximise the performance of Infinispan transactional caches which received a major overhaul int the 5.1 'Brahma' series, and the result is that instead of going final, we've decided to cut another candidate release, Infinispan 5.1.0.CR4 which is now available for download from the usual place. We're confident that these improvements will be greatly appreciated by Infinispan consumers such as Hibernate second-level-cache and JBoss Application Server 7 HTTP session replication.

As part of the configuration and parser work, new configuration documentation has generated which you can now find in http://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/5.1/configdocs/.

As always, give it a spin to this new candidate release and let us know what you think. You can find detailed information on the issues fixed in our release notes.

Cheers,
Galder

Last Infinispan 5.1 'Brahma' CR is out!

First of all, happy new year to all the Infinispan community!

The final CR of the Infinispan 5.1 'Brahma' series, called 5.1.0.CR3 is out with another round of fixes. This will be the last of the candidate releases and we expect to go final with the release very shortly, so your help now is crucial. If you're using the last of our stable releases, 5.0.1.FINAL, please upgrade to 5.1.0.CR3 and let us know if you encounter any issues.

Cheers,
Galder