New York User Group Meeting (NYGUG)

Announcing the first New York GemFire User Group (NYGUG) meeting

Please join us for our first NYGUG meeting hosted by Credit Suisse. We will open with Ed Gokhman, IT Director at Credit Suisse, who will provide a welcome introduction on behalf of the hosting organization and give an overview of GemFire usage at Credit Suisse; followed by Jags Ramnarayan, GemStone's Chief Architect, who will bring GemStone news and announcements; Sudhir Menon, GemStone's Head of Engineering, who will hold a technical session on best practices and API; and Dae Song Park, GemStone's VP of EDF Solutions, who will give a demo of the latest tools and software. Sandwiches and soft drinks are served.

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When/Where

Upon arrival, please proceed to the receptionist at the lobby and ask for GemStone User Group Meeting. There will be a representative at the first floor lobby.

Agenda

GFE 6.0 capabilities (Check out our Product Feature Video )

In the 6.0 release, we introduced a cluster resource manager that continuously monitors cluster memory preventing the dreaded out of memory conditions and the ability to dynamically rebalance partitioned data across the cluster. We will cover this and also cover several other features :

• Horizontal partitioning with colocation: Colocate related data and parallelize behavior execution on the data nodes to achieve dramatically higher throughput and linear scaling for your application. The application behavior execution services are offered through the GemFire function service.
• Use "Delta" for propagating updates: Instead of propagating the entire object when it is updated, now, we now offer a simple programming model to capture and propagate "deltas" all the way from a publishing client to all replicas and even to subscribing clients.
• Enhancements to the native clients (C++, C#): Continuous queries, using connection pools and discovery service (locator) for load balancing and continuous load conditioning, etc.

What is coming?

• What are some of the features that we are planning in the next release?
• What is our technology strategy and direction for 2010?

Developer productivity tools

• GemFire Monitor 2.0 - a UI tool for continuous monitoring of an entire cluster,
• Gemfire Data browser - a UI tool for executing adhoc queries and to create continously refreshed views on data (using CQs)
• GemFire Configurator - a UI configuration generator for developers that are new to GemFire
• Controlling and managing GC pauses
• We will talk about how "delta" plays a crucial role in GC reduction, recommendations on heap sizing, GC options and we will discuss an initiative underway to eradicate this plague.

Biographies

Ed Gokhman, Credit Suisse

Edward Gokhman is an IT Director at Credit Suisse, Derivatives IT department. His work deals with enterprise-wide financial data distribution and quantitative risk analysis systems. Professional interests include distributed computing, risk management systems, and financial risk visualization. In the past, Ed was an independent consultant with clients at Merrill Lynch, Salomon Brothers, Citadel, Lehman, and others. Ed was born and raised in Moscow, former USSR, moving permanently to US in 1977. His early career in this country was at Bell Laboratories. Ed holds Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering.

Jags Ramnarayan, GemStone Systems

Jags Ramnarayan babbles in Java, distributed computing, high performance low latency systems, garbage collection, database management. 18+ years in the industry. As Chief Architect for GemStone Systems, Jags is responsible for the technology direction for all our distributed main memory platforms. Good chunk of his time is spent helping several large customers in adopting and successfully deploying middle tier data grids. Before, as the Web Services Architect for BEA, he represented BEA in the W3C SOAP protocol specification, JAXM and other standards. He also represented GemStone in the J2EE platform specification and the EJB expert group in the past. Jags holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science and a Master degree in management of science and technology.

Sudhir Menon, GemStone Systems

With over 18 years of cutting edge software experience with marquee firms like Gemstone, Intel, EDS and CenterSpan communications, Sudhir Menon is one of the key architects for the Gemfire Enterprise Data Fabric. Sudhir is the Director of Engineering for GemStone Systems, Inc. and works closely with various development teams (both onsite and offshore) working on the Gemfire Enterprise Data Fabric. His expertise in distributed data management spans multiple languages (Java, C++ and .NET) and multiple platforms and he has architected and developed network stacks for the last 10+ years. He holds multiple patents in the area of scaled up distributed networks and has published papers and presented at various conferences. At Centerspan communications, he was one of the key architects who built the largest secure peer to peer content distribution platform over the internet.

Dae Song Park, GemStone Systems

Dae Song Park has more than 20 years of financial industry experience and is responsible for delivering Enterprise Data Fabric solutions to GemStone customers. Dae Song covers all facets of financial market applications with special interests in high frequency trading and market data systems. Prior to GemStone, he was with Nasdaq, American Stock Exchange, Daiwa and JPMC leading small to large teams of developers for building trading systems. Dae Song holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Computer Science.