Neil Stevenson

Neil Stevenson

CTO, Hazelcast Platform

Design Considerations When Using Transactionality

by Neil Stevenson — Sep 8, 2022

Database transactions often underpin online business transactions. The database transactions are the brakes if we compare business transactions to race...

Managing Applications with Multiple Data Centers

by Neil Stevenson — Aug 18, 2022

Many Hazelcast customers have copies of their data in multiple data centers. This strategy is commonly used for business continuity...

Sending Logs to the Cloud

by Neil Stevenson — Aug 8, 2022

Logging is a key tool for the application developer, with many considerations such as what detail to log, logging level,...

Streaming with Spring

by Neil Stevenson — Jul 18, 2022

Hazelcast provides a library of connectors for streaming data in and out of the platform, but you might wish to...

Some Background on Tiered Storage

by Neil Stevenson — Mar 16, 2022

Hazelcast Platform 5.1 introduces a new feature, “Tiered Storage.” You can read about it here. But in this blog post,...

Hazelcast Anti-Patterns

by Neil Stevenson — Sep 1, 2021

It’s said a wise person learns from their mistakes, and a wiser person learns from the mistakes of others. In...

Is the Data Evenly Allocated?

by Neil Stevenson — Aug 3, 2021

Uniformity and balance are key principles for data grids. All grid members should hold the same amount of data, do...

External Hazelcast Queries

by Neil Stevenson — Jul 26, 2021

We can send an SQL query to Hazelcast and get results, a great feature. But did you know the data...

Intelligent WAN Synchronization

by Neil Stevenson — Jun 3, 2021

One of the features of Hazelcast Enterprise is the ability to share data between multiple Hazelcast clusters, whether geographically distant...

Comparing Serialization Options

by Neil Stevenson — May 26, 2021

“Which serialization option is best?“. In this post we’ll explore some of the most common serialization options for Hazelcast, which...

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