Data replication with RDBMS is here for ages and many of you have set it up and worked with it in different scenarios. But what about distributed platforms like GridGain or else? WAN data replication is still possible with systems of the kind, but have many differences and lot more challenging from engineering standpoint compared to traditional…
Distributed platforms, like Apache Ignite, rely very much on horizontal scalability. More machines in your cluster - better performance of your application. Got twice faster after adding the second machine to your farm? Ten times faster after adding ten machines? Is that always true? What is the responsibility of the platform? Where are its limits…