In Part I of my series of posts on the GigaSpaces European Customer Conference, I said Dekel Tankel from GigaSpaces presented a demo of our joint solution with Microsoft around scaling out Excel. Here are some more details.
The demo showed how you can deploy the GigaSpaces SLA-driven In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) through the GigaSpaces containers, which also hosted the feed handler that was deployed into those containers as a Spring-based POJO service. The demo used distributed dependency injection to synchronize between the feeder and the spaces: the feeder got injected with a reference of the space once the space became available. The Excel service subscribed to the Data Grid, based on some filter criteria, and got the feed from the Data Grid pushed directly into the Excel console. The demo showed how you could monitor cluster health, and drill-down and look for the data contained in the Data Grid instances using a SQL viewer. Dekel then demonstrated how you can seamlessly recover from failure while the application continues to work as if nothing happened.
