"A Series of Unfortunate Events" and moving on

Some wisdom we all have to accept from time to time: "Sometimes things just don't work out the way we want them to."

new Year, new Life, new Horizon

It's been a long time not posting anything to my blog. Main thing, this will change now as I have a lot to talk about over the course of the next months. Anyways let's get to business. Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you have the feeling that

The Hazelcast Incubator

When Hazelcast [http://www.hazelcast.com] started as a pure open source project in 2008, there was one guys, Talip Ozturk, with an amazing vision: A simple, powerful, scalable Distributed Map. Ever since Hazelcast went more powerful and added more features or data structures. Today almost all Java Collections and

snowcast - Migration and Failover - Feature Complete

When I started snowcast back at end of 2014 I haven't thought that people will really be interested but most of the times it will work out differently from your imagination. A still fairly small group of interested people showed up and I got a lot of nice words and

snowcast - Hazelcast Client and the snowcast logo

snowcast In December I started a new project called snowcast. Arisen from the need in one of my own private projects I decided to open source this part of the work. snowcast is an auto-configuration, distributed, scalable ID generator on top of Hazelcast. Since snowcast is not an official Hazelcast