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In an ideal world, consumer-facing online businesses would deliver a consistent, efficient, and secure payment processing experience to their customers. Although there are lots of variables in running an e-commerce site, completing the sale is pretty ... [More] much at the top of the list. When consumers go online to make purchases during a busy period such […] The post Right-Sizing Your On-Demand Infrastructure for Payment Processing in Any Cloud appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

Securing your data is much more critical than ever before, as security breaches and cyber attacks continue to escalate. Security is a must, but generally, it requires tradeoffs in performance and user-friendliness. With Hazelcast Cloud, we provide ... [More] you with several ways to secure your deployments without losing the performance and simplicity of Hazelcast.  Hazelcast Cloud […] The post How to Secure Your Hazelcast Cloud Deployments appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

Transaction processing in today’s global payments networks is what essentially powers the global economy. The framework for transaction processing has expanded and morphed considerably over the past few years as consumers have started using their ... [More] mobile devices to execute payments. Meanwhile, non-traditional deep-pocketed players like Google and Apple have entered the system with competitive alternatives, […] The post High-Speed Transaction Processing with No Compromise on Fraud Detection appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

Since the first release of Hazelcast Jet Extension Modules in July, we’ve been focused on enhancing the set of extension modules that we have to make the integration easy between Hazelcast Jet and third-party data providers.  Today, we are happy to ... [More] announce the release of the following modules: MongoDB Connector MongoDB is a general-purpose, document-based, […] The post Hazelcast Jet Connectors Release Announcement appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

The Open Banking initiative, also referred to as PSD2 (Payment Services Directive), is a textbook example of streaming technology applied to modern banking requirements. In this model, banks (primarily in Europe) are required to make their back-end ... [More] systems for customer accounts and payment services available to other members of the financial payment ecosystem. While this […] The post Open Banking and the Application of In-Memory Technologies appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

I’m sure you use caching somewhere in your system. This can be either to improve performance, reduce backend load, or to decrease downtime. Everybody uses caching. Caching is everywhere. However, in which part of your system should it be placed? If ... [More] you look at the following diagram representing a simple microservice architecture, where would you […] The post Where Is My Cache? Architectural Patterns for Caching Microservices appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

Introduction We all know that selecting the right technology for your business-critical systems is hard. You first have to decide what characteristics are most important to you, and then you need to identify the technologies that fit that profile. ... [More] The problem is that you typically only get a superficial view of how technologies work, and […] The post Redis Load Handling vs Data Integrity: Tradeoffs in Distributed Data Store Design appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

In June 2019, we announced the inclusion of Hazelcast Jet as a runner for Apache Beam. Now it’s time for an example showing how it’s done. As a bonus, it’s not “Word Count.” IoT Data The data we will use is a series of 2,000 GPS points and time ... [More] offsets: # Latitude, Longitude, Time-Offset 45.417,8.179,1629 45.417,8.178,1630 […] The post Running Apache Beam on Hazelcast Jet appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

As cloud technologies evolve, applications require less human intervention and maintenance. “Serverless” is a term that implies that users should have nothing to do with servers. The most exciting claim of serverless functions is that they scale ... [More] automatically as the user base and load grows. Moreover, when there is no user activity, there will be […] The post Auto-Scaling Clusters with Hazelcast Cloud appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]

Recently, an interesting paper was published by UC Berkeley with their review of serverless computing and quite reasonable predictions: “…Just as the 2009 paper identified challenges for the cloud and predicted they would be addressed and that cloud ... [More] use would accelerate, we predict these issues are solvable and that serverless computing will grow to dominate […] The post Serverless Fraud Detection Using Amazon Lambda, Node.js, and Hazelcast Cloud appeared first on Hazelcast. [Less]