http://ajax.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Jim Falgout Copyright 2008 AJAX & RIA JOURNAL Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:50:00 GMT AJAX & RIA JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/523054.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/523054.htm Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT I target customers who have large data processing needs. These come in various forms, but generically look like this: the customer gets huge data drops in some form or another and must process the data and output results in a very specific time frame. The customer has written some scripts, maybe some code and SQL. They have attempted some optimizations that helped a little, but they're not meeting their timeline. http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/419717.htmhttp://ajax.sys-con.com/read/419717.htm Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:00:00 GMT The multi-core buzz is everywhere. Pick up a newspaper and the local electronics mega-store is advertising multi-core desktops and laptops to the consumer. Interesting, but what does it mean to the everyday Java programmer? Maybe nothing. If you live in the application server world writing EJB-based applications your application server does most of the heavy lifting for you. It handles concurrency just fine. But that doesn't cover all applications. Multi-core technology will especially affect applications that must process large amounts of data in a non-transactional (outside of a database context) manner. For this class of applications, the implications of multi-core are huge.