Presentation Slides

Thanks to Victor Chan for his excellent presentation! The slides are available for download now (below). GigaSpaces also formerly announced their program for startup software firms (see their website). It's great to see that JavaSpaces and JINI are alive and kicking!

• Community edition of GigaSpaces

Abstract

This talk focuses on the architecture and the patterns implemented behind the scenes that enable the GigaSpaces XAP (ZAP) platform to scale linearly and still provide a rich and fault-tolerant programmingmodel.

Learn how to leverage the simplicity and consistency of Spring and achieve the scalability of Google. Understand the programming paradigm known as SBA and Discover what the power of Transparent Partitioning and Colocation can do for applications ranging from Logistics to Order Processing to Algorithmic Trading.

Speaker

As Sr. Director, Worldwide Technical Communications with GigaSpaces Technologies Inc, Owen translates the new architectural concepts and technical capabilities of space-based solutions into accessible formats so that technologists can adapt them rapidly into their environments and gain their maximum benefit. Owens' areas of expertise include J2EE design patterns and performance tuning of J2EE applications. Prior to GigaSpaces, Owen worked as Principal J2EE Product Specialist with Identify Software. Before that Owen acted as Senior Enterprise Architect with The Middleware Company where he specialized in B2B, EJB and J2EE training and consulting with a special emphasis on webMethods B2B server and, BEA WebLogic Servers. Owen has over the years delivered architecture consulting, mentoring and training to dozens of companies and advised them on how to best architect new applications ranging from e-commerce to stock-trading. Many of his engagements involved developing application prototypes on-site. Prior to The Middleware-Company, Owen was Senior Consultant and Partner in The New Customware Company, where his duties mirrored almost exactly those he executed with the Middleware Company. Prior to CustomWare, Owen was Senior Consultant and Instructor in the Professional Services organization at Inprise (Borland) (an EJB/J2EE & CORBA vendor), where he provided consulting and mentoring to customers in not only building large applications with EJB/J2EE and CORBA, but also specifically on the instrumentation, monitoring and management of applications developed using these technologies.

Presenter Publications

• Textual Articulations: active blog located
• Iterative Development: The Use of J2EE Best Practices: prepared for Precise Software - later to become Symantec
• Benefits and Market Placement of the Lutris Application Server -- Co-authored with Salil Deshpande

Speaking Engagements

• August 3rd, 2007 Cologne, Germany "Scalable as Google, Simple as Spring
• August 2nd, 2007 Dusseldorf, Germany (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• June 7th, 2007 NJ Microsoft Developers Group (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• May 16th, 2007 Oakland East Bay Java SIG (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• April 3rd, 2007 Zurich JUG (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• March 14th, 2007 Calgary JUG (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• February 15th, 2007 Orlando .NET User Group (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• January 19th, 2007 Codemesh Conference (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• December 5, 2006 Washington DC Taking a Fresh Look at Scalable, Ultra-Fast Computing (Panel discussion)
• June 2006 IASA Seattle (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• May 2006 Triangle NC JUG (Jini and JavaSpaces -Not just for toasters)
• April 2006 Anne Arbor, Denver, Boulder, and Austin JUGs (Jini and JavaSpaces -Not just for toasters)
• March 2006 San Diego JUG (The End Of Tier-Based Architecture)
• June 2003 NYC JUG (Advanced J2EE Patterns)
• June 2003 Boston JUG (Performance Success with J2EE)
• April/May 2002 Precise Software and The Serverside present: "Performance Success with J2EE".. Boston, NYC, Washington, Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Santa Clara
• February 4th 2002 Moderator: Java on Wall Street "Performance tuning J2EE Applications"

Education

• 15 + years experience consulting in the software industry (includes various product certifications: Java, BEA, WebMethods, BAS, GigaSpaces)
• Masters in Fine Art, NYU University
• Bachelors in Fine Art The Juilliard School