Discussion on Apache Geode

Apache Geode : Open Sourced GemFire In-Memory Distributed Database

The technology behind the "GemFire" in-memory data grid has a storied journey, starting in 2002 as part of GemStone, acquired by VMware, spun out to Pivotal Software, and is now proposed to become an incubated project of the Apache Software Foundation :

http://geode.incubator.apache.org/


Companies using GemFire have deployed it in some of the most mission critical, time sensitive applications in their enterprises, making sure tickets are purchased in a timely fashion, hotel rooms are booked, financial trades are made, and credit card transactions are cleared.

Come to this meet up to learn about becoming a contributor to this powerful and fascinating technology:

A brief history of GemFire

Architecture and use cases
Why we are taking GemFire Open Source

Design philosophy and principles

Case Study : Indian Railways, IRCTC and China Rail
How to contribute Ideas for next enhancements

About the Speakers:
Suranjan Kumar : For the last 10 years Suranjan has been working on highly scalable and distributed systems development. He has been working on GemFire since 2007, He's currently a Lead engineer at Pivotal working on GemFire and an influential apache committer for Geode.

Shirish Deshmukh : For the last 10 years Shirish has been working on highly scalable and distributed systems development. He's currently a Lead engineer at Pivotal working on GemFire and an influential apache committer for Geode.