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Introduction to Gemfire

Course Summary

The Introduction to Gemfire training course is designed to provide the fundamental developer and operational knowledge to stand up a Gemfire cluster.

The course begins by covering the foundational aspects of Gemfire architecture. Next, it explores how to handle events, functions, and regions. The course concludes by analyzing how to configure Delta Propagation and execute Transaction Management.

Purpose
 Learn to use Gemfire in high performance systems in order to facilitate fast access to data.
Audience
 Developers and those interested caching big data.
Role
Software Developer
Skill Level
Advanced
Style
Hack-a-thon - Learning Spikes - Workshops
Duration
4 Days

 

Productivity Objectives
  • Learn the fundamental architecture of Gemfire
  • Understand the use cases where Gemfire is applicable
  • Perform fundamental storage operations

What You'll Learn:

In the Introduction to Gemfire training course, you'll learn:
  • GemFire Architecture
    • GemFire architecture
    • Common terminologies
    • GemFire installation
  • Configuring Client-Server Architecture
    • Membership discovery protocols
    • Locators/cache server
    • Client-server architecture
    • Configuration for server grouping discovery
    • Subscribe to server events
    • GFMon
  • Region Management
    • Region topologies & attribute regions
    • Region APIs
    • Create and manage regions
    • Data operations on regions
  • Partitioned Regions
    • How partitioned regions distribute objects
    • Partitioned region mangement
    • How recovery works
    • Cache writers and listeners how they behave differently
  • Replication and Persistence
    • How replicated regions work
    • Disk stores
  • Event Handling
    • GemFire events
    • Handle events in the caching API
    • Cache events, listeners, loaders, writers, and callbacks
    • Cache write behind
    • Distributed event handling
  • Querying
    • Query object data with the query language
    • Indexes
    • Joins
    • Continuous querying
  • Functions
    • How function execution works
    • Write and register functions
    • Register the function
    • Run functions from the calling application
    • Run the function in custom-partitioned and colocated partitioned regions
    • Store and retrieve function results
    • Function HA
  • Cache Management
    • Expiration refresh stale data
    • Eviction managing region and heap size
    • Configure eviction
    • Heap least recently used eviction
    • Resource manager
  • Configuring Multisite Installations
    • Multisite caching overview
    • Configure the gateway hub
    • Implement a write-behind cache listener in your hubs
    • Configure regions to send updates to the gateway queue
    • Gateway configuration parameters
    • Message processing
    • Load balancing in multisite installations
    • Multiple-hub configuration
    • Implement a multihub system
    • Failover
    • Multisite topologies
  • Configuring Delta Propagation
    • Delta propagation
    • Supported topologies and limitations
    • Delta propagation properties
    • Implement delta propagation
    • Errors in delta propagation
    • Performance
  • Transaction Management
    • GemFire transaction semantics
    • Cache design for transactions
    • GemFire transactions
  • Monitoring
    • JConsole
    • VSD
    • GFMon recapitulation
    • JMX
    • Virtual machine tuning options
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