Moving to Oracle, Cleveland Java SIG

It has been a ridiculously long time since I’ve posted here, and lots of interesting things have happened. Obviously I no longer work for Tangosol since we have been acquired by Oracle. Soon we will be moving from our Somerville office over to the Oracle offices in Burlington, MA. It will certainly be a change going from a small company over to one of the largest software companies in the world, but this will be a great opportunity to bring emerging data grid technology to the masses.

Speaking of such opportunities, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Cleveland Java SIG last night about tools used for building scalable and high performing applications. We explored all layers of the application tier, including messaging, application servers, databases, and data grids. Since the latter technology is currently the least understood, most of the questions at the end of the presentation were about data grids, clustering, and Coherence. Overall it was a great group and I had a good time meeting Maciej, Scott, and many others.