Presentation: "The end of the application server as we've known it"

Time: Thursday 15:45 - 16:45

Location: Concordia

Abstract:

Standard Application Servers as we've known them only partially address enterprises' needs for scalability. As a result, a new class of application servers has emerged, focused on massive scalability. In this session, we will explore some of the common characteristics of these servers while looking at how to migrate an existing Java EE web app to a scale-out application server, relatively seamlessly.

In the live demo part of this session, we will take an existing Java EE/Spring application (the famous 'pet clinic') and use a cloud-based environment to demonstrate how you can add dynamic scaling, self healing and improved performance with almost no changes to your code.

Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO, GigaSpaces

 Nati  Shalom

Nati Shalom is the CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces. He is also the Head of the Israeli Grid consortium. He has more then 10 years of experience with distributed technology and architecture namely CORBA, Jini, J2EE, Grid and SOA.

As a technology visionary, he is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and is actively involved in evangelizing Space Based Architecture and Data Grid patterns.