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Published inAug 2013
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Matthew Johns
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contacted on 6 may '16 ________ Matthew Johns is an agile software engineer and hands-on technical/solution architect; specialising in designing and delivering highly scaled and available distributed systems, with broad experience across the whole stack. He is the solution architect and lead engineer at Sky.
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Here we can see that Hazelcast has yet again attempted to integrate well into a software library eco-system, knowing that the same wheel has already been invented in order to solve various problems or provide particular functionality. Being able to work well with other popular frameworks allows us to bring in this new world of thinking into our existing stack a much smoother process.

As we have seen throughout, the technology provides us with a flexible, extensible, and dynamic data source enabling us to build data stores and structures that are truly distributed without any single point of failure. We can use various generic collections to hold our data in appropriate ways, be it for key value storage, FIFO queuing, or providing a mechanism for a cluster wide communication topic. It also provides us with additional complimentary capabilities that would normally be crow-barred into other centralized services (for example, using database row locking for cluster locks or de-duplicating...

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Getting Started with Hazelcast
Published in: Aug 2013Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781782167303

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Matthew Johns

contacted on 6 may '16 ________ Matthew Johns is an agile software engineer and hands-on technical/solution architect; specialising in designing and delivering highly scaled and available distributed systems, with broad experience across the whole stack. He is the solution architect and lead engineer at Sky.
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