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John Davies, CTO and Founder of Incept5

John Davies

Biography: John Davies

John Davies is co-founder and CTO of Incept5 and has been intimately involved in implementing Visa's new capabilities. He was previously chief architect at JP Morgan and BNP Paribas, co-founder of C24 (sold to Iona) and technical director at Progress Software. John has co-authored of several enterprise Java and architecture books and is a frequent speaker at banking and technology conferences

Presentation: Caching, NOSQL & Grids - What the banks can teach us

Track: Industrial-Strength Architecture for Integration and Web Computing / Time: Friday 16:40 - 17:40 / Location: Fleming

It's fair to say that most of today's caching technologies, NOSQL databases, data and compute grids were kicked off by the banking industry, what people are exploring today the banks have been doing for a decade. So, with about a decade of experience in the area John will walk you through how the banks are using many of todays technologies, the grids, virtualisation and in-memory databases of 5-10 years ago are what we call "cloud" and "NOSQL" today. John will cover some of the distributed patterns, solutions and an overview of some of the more interesting technologies. Including GemFire, Neo4J, Terracotta etc. solutions to index, distribute and persist complex messages such as SWIFT, FpML, FIX and ISO-20022. Some code and a lot of use-cases.