January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
75 pages
1h 22m
English
Content preview from Scaling Data Services with Pivotal GemFire
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Foreword
In Super Mario Bros., a popular Nintendo video game from the 1980s, you can run faster and jump higher after catching a hidden star. With modern software systems, development teams are finding new kinds of star power: cloud servers, streaming data, and reactive architectures are just a few examples.
Could GemFire be the powerful star for your mission-critical, real-time, data-centric apps? Absolutely, yes! This book reveals how to upgrade your performance game without the head-bumping headaches.
More cloud, cloud, cloud, and more data, data, data. Sound familiar? Modern applications change how we combine cloud infrastructure with multiple data sources. We’re heading toward real-time, data-rich, and event-driven architectures. For these apps, GemFire fills an important place between relational and single-node key–value databases. Its mature production history is attractive to organizations that need mature production solutions.
At Southwest Airlines, GemFire integrates schedule information from more than a dozen systems, such as passenger, airport, crew, flight, gate, cargo, and maintenance systems. As these messages flow into GemFire, we update real-time web UIs (at more than 100 locations) and empower an innovative set of decision optimization tools. Every day, our ability to make better flight schedule decisions benefits more than 500,000 Southwest Airlines customers. With our event-driven software patterns, data integration concepts, and distributed systems foundation ...
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