Friday, July 17, 2020

Double your performance: virtual threads (fibers) and JDK 15/16!

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If you use UDP as transport and want to double your performance : read on! If you use TCP, your performance won't change much. You mig...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

New Netty transport

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I'm happy to announce that Baizel Mathew and Steven Wong have written a new transport protocol using Netty! Read Baizel's announce...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Hybrid clouds with JGroups and Skupper

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This is a follow-up post on [ 1 ], which showed how to connect two Kubernetes-based hybrid clouds (Google GKE and AWS EKS) with JGroups'...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

First alpha of JGroups 5.0

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Howdy folks! Today I'm very happy to announce the first alpha version of JGroups 5.0! JGroups 5.0 has major API changes and I'd ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Spanning JGroups Kubernetes-based clusters across Google and Amazon clouds

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In this (long!) post, I'll provide step-by-step instructions on how to create JGroups clusters in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Ama...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Compiling JGroups to native code with Quarkus/GraalVM

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I'm happy to announce the availability of a JGroups extension for Quarkus ! What? Quarkus is a framework that (among other things)...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Network sniffing

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Oftentimes, JGroups / Datagrid users capture traffic from the network for analysis. Using tools such as wireshark or tshark , they can loo...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

4.1.0 released

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I'm happy to announce that I just released JGroups 4.1.0! Why the bump to a new minor version? I had to make some API changes and - ...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

4.0.19

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FYI: I just released 4.0.19.Final. This changes the way ASYM_ENCRYPT disseminates the private shared group key to members, going from a pu...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

and 4.0.17

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Sorry for the short release cycle between 4.0.16 and 4.0.17, but there was an important feature in 4.0.17, which I wanted to release as soon...
Monday, January 21, 2019

JGroups 4.0.16

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I just released 4.0.16. The most important features/bug fixes are (for a comprehensive list see [1]): Better mechanism to detect whether ...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Injecting a split brain into a JGroups cluster

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Thanks to a contribution by Andrea Tarocchi , we can now inject arbitrary views into a JGroups cluster, generating split brain scenarios. ...
Monday, August 28, 2017

JGroups workshops in Rome and Berlin in November

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I'm happy to announce that I've revamped the JGroups workshop and I'll be teaching 2 workshops in November: Rome Nov 7-10 and Be...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Non-blocking JGroups

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I'm happy to announce that I just released JGroups 4.0.4.Final! It's prominent feature is non-blocking flow control [1,2]. Flow...
Monday, May 08, 2017

Running an Infinispan cluster with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine (GKE)

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In this post, I'm going to show the steps needed to get a 10 node Infinispan cluster up and running on Google Container Engine (GKE) . ...