Software Transactional Memory (STM)

The Actor Model is based on the premise of small independent processes working in isolation and where the state can…

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Adding Turbochargers to JEE Apps

One of the key roles, I play is evangelizing Akka within my local community. As part of the discussions, the…

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Application Scalability: Still elusive for Enterprises Apps

The advent of the Consumer Business application like Facebook, Twitter has changed the definition of Application Scalability. Decade back 10…

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Top 5 Picks of Google IO 2012

Google IO 2012 developer conference has just concluded last week amid lot of fanfare. I for one think that Google…

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Consumerization of IT – What it means for the Architect

Consumerization is described as the trend for IT to first emerge in the Consumer space and subsequently makes its way…

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Akka STM – Playing PingPong with STM Refs and Agents

PingPong is a classic example where 2 players (or threads) access a shared resource – PingPong Table and pass the…

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Implementing Master Slave / Grid Computing Pattern in Akka

Master Slave pattern is a prime example of fault tolerance and parallel computation. The idea behind the pattern is to…

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Processing 10 million messages with Akka

Akka Actors promise concurrency. What better way to simulate that and see if how much time it takes to process…

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MapReduce for dummies

Continuing the coverage on Hadoop component, we will go through the MapReduce component. MapReduce is a concept that has been…

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