About Munish Gupta
Munish K Gupta is a senior architect working in a leading IT services company. His experience is in building Online Portals, SaaS Platforms, CRM Solutions and Transaction Processing Systems. He is author of the book - Akka Essentials.
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Software Transactional Memory (STM)
The Actor Model is based on the premise of small independent processes working in isolation and where the state can be updated only via message passing. The actors hold the state within ...
Adding Turbochargers to JEE Apps
One of the key roles, I play is evangelizing Akka within my local community. As part of the discussions, the question/doubt usually in people’s mind is how can Akka provide better ...
Application Scalability: Still elusive for Enterprises Apps
The advent of the Consumer Business application like Facebook, Twitter has changed the definition of Application Scalability. Decade back 10 million+ was a large user base, Facebook ...
Top 5 Picks of Google IO 2012
Google IO 2012 developer conference has just concluded last week amid lot of fanfare. I for one think that Google has lot more influence on Enterprise technology than it seems. ...
Consumerization of IT – What it means for the Architect
Consumerization is described as the trend for IT to first emerge in the Consumer space and subsequently makes its way into the enterprise world. But what exactly in the consumer world, ...
Akka STM – Playing PingPong with STM Refs and Agents
PingPong is a classic example where 2 players (or threads) access a shared resource – PingPong Table and pass the Ball (state variable) between each other. With any shared resource, ...
Implementing Master Slave / Grid Computing Pattern in Akka
Master Slave pattern is a prime example of fault tolerance and parallel computation. The idea behind the pattern is to partition the work into identical sub tasks which are then delegated ...
Processing 10 million messages with Akka
Akka Actors promise concurrency. What better way to simulate that and see if how much time it takes to process 10 million messages using commodity hardware and software without any ...
MapReduce for dummies
Continuing the coverage on Hadoop component, we will go through the MapReduce component. MapReduce is a concept that has been programming model of LISP. But before we jump into MapReduce, ...
Application Performance and Antipatterns
Any application you pick up, there are some issues – big or small. There will be copy-paste code, mistakes, algorithms which could have better thought through. But what distinguishes ...
