Speakers

Shay Banon

Founder of the Compass Open Source Project

Shay is the founder of the Compass open source project, a unique solution enabling search capabilities into any application model. He started working on mission critical real time C/C++ systems, later moving to Java (and never looked back). Within the Java world, Shay has worked on a propriety implementation of a distributed rule engine(RETE) server, your typical Java based web projects, and messaging based projects within the financial industry. Currently, Shay is a System Architect at GigaSpaces, GigaSpaces provides a single platform for end-to-end scalability of high performance and stateful distributed applications. GigaSpaces’ unique approach enables developers to Write their business logic Once and then seamlessly Scale out the application linearly Anywhere.

Blog

The Future of Compass & ElasticSearch

Posted Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Its been a long time since I blogged about Compass, and I guess its about time to discuss Compass, ElasticSearch, and how they relate to one another. I started Compass six years ago with a real belief that search is something tha more »

REST and Web Sockets?

Posted Sunday, February 14, 2010

I must be missing something here… . I went ahead and looked at Web Sockets since it sounded like a great solution to improve the communication from client to server instead of HTTP. It seems like the WebSockets send API only more »

ElasticSearch

Posted Monday, February 8, 2010

Well, the gig is out. What I have been working on for the past several months is now alive. ElasticSearch is an open source, distribute more »