January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
75 pages
1h 22m
English
Content preview from Scaling Data Services with Pivotal GemFire
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Preface
Why Are We Writing This Book?
When Pivotal committed to an open source strategy for its products, we donated the code base for GemFire as Apache Geode. This means that Pivotal GemFire and Apache Geode are essentially the same product. In writing this book, we’ll try to use GemFire, but we also sometimes use Geode.
We also decided that our products should have more information than is provided in the standard documentation, and we wanted to introduce GemFire to a wider audience. We’re not unique in this thinking. Many other Apache Software Foundation projects have books, often published by O’Reilly Media.
Who Are “We”?
Wes Williams and Charlie Black, both GemFire gurus, proposed the idea of a GemFire/Geode book and outlined their ideas for the content. Mike Stolz, the GemFire product lead, contributed most of the material and edited much of the rest. Others contributed material, as well, and their names are listed in the upcoming Acknowledgments section and in the chapter for which they have written extensively.
Who Is the Audience?
This book is primarily aimed at Java developers, especially those who require lightning quick response times in their applications. Microservice application developers who could benefit from a cache for storage would also find this book useful, especially the chapter on Pivotal Cloud Cache. You can profit from this book if you have no previous experience with in-memory data grids, GemFire, or Apache Geode. We also wrote this book so that ...
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