Getting Started with Hazelcast - Softcover

Johns, Mat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782167307 ISBN 13: 9781782167303

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Hazelcast is the leading open source in-memory data grid that will allow you to bring data scalability to your applications. This guide takes you through all the fundamentals in easily assimilated step-by-step chapters.

Overview

• Understand how to revolutionize the way you share data across your application
• A one-stop guide to this bleeding edge technology
• Store objects into distributed collections

In Detail

Applications have become increasing agile and dynamic, reacting to the demands of their users except at the data layer. Hazelcast offers a new and innovative approach to data scalability. Unlike many of its competitors, its in-memory counterparts distribution is built-in to the heart of the technology, allowing your app to stretch and scale at all layers as needed.

Getting Started with Hazelcast is a hands-on introductory text that guides you though learning about this innovative new technology. With plenty of practical examples and walkthroughs, you will be armed with all the knowledge required to start bringing data scalability to your applications.

Getting Started with Hazelcast looks at the issue of data scalability and how traditional approaches tend to work around the problem to reduce it, but not without new issues cropping up.

The book describes how Hazelcast offers a solution to this problem using practical examples to help you store distributed data quickly and safely. You will also learn about running tasks easily across the cluster, using support for public cloud infrastructure, and how to architect to make best use of the technology.

What you will learn from this book

• Store lots of types of data into different collections
• Set up a Hazelcast cluster
• Develop a cluster-wide mutex lock
• Use a truly distributed messaging topic
• Understand the trade-off for extra performance with data consistency
• Listen in to cluster events
• Run tasks within and across the cluster
• Use the public cloud support to help you go global

Approach

Written as a step-by-step guide, Getting Started with Hazelcast will teach you all you need to know to make your application data scalable.

Who this book is written for

This book is a great introduction for Java developers, software architects, or developers looking to enable scalable and agile data within their applications. You should have programming knowledge of Java and a general familiarity with concepts like data caching and clustering.

About this title

About the Author

Mat Johns

Mat Johns is an agile software engineer, hands-on architect, and a general technologist based in London. His experience with the Web reaches all the way back to his misspent youth and some rather hacktastic code, but eventually he grew up to graduate from the University of Southampton with a Masters in Computer Science with Distributed Systems and Networks. He has worked for a number of startups on various web projects and systems since then and nowadays he specializes in designing and creating high performance and scalable web services, currently in the Internet TV world.

Away from technology, he is an avid explorer and endeavors to seek out new destinations and adventures as much as possible. He is also a qualified yacht skipper and regularly races in, around, and beyond the Solent.

You can follow him on Twitter at @matjohns.

About this edition

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782167307
• ISBN 13: 9781782167303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 121