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• February 06, 2018

  IMDG Skills and Jobs Index 2018

  2018 In Memory Data Grids resurgent.IMDG (In Memory Data Grids) have been around for well over a decade now and sit in a product sector that slightly overlaps NoSQL functionality. IMDGs initially came to the market in the early nougties when web ...

• February 16, 2017

  IMDG Skills and Jobs Index 2017

  How relevant are my IMDG skills?I ran across a LinkedIn post yesterday from 451 Research, they were updating their NoSQL Skills index at the request of a poster. It was a pretty simple thing that was based on the counts of a few different LinkedI...

• December 16, 2015

  Hazelcast LDAP Security

  Hazelcast has the ability to authenticate users of a cluster and then to authorise their access to data structures and operations based on roles held by a user. This authentication and authorisation occurs within the cluster when a client connect...

• October 05, 2015

  Hazelcast Entry Listener Hand-off

  One useful feature of Hazelcast is the ability to register a callback for just about any conceivable event that may occur in a cluster. This ranges from mutations on the various data structures right through to listening for members leaving and j...

• June 21, 2015

  Hazelcast Cluster Quorum

  A new feature in the 3.5 release of Hazelcast is the Cluster Quorum. In this instance we’re not talking about a Quorum in its traditional distributed systems sense, think of a Cluster Quorum as a kind of gatekeeper, protecting your cluster during...