In this session, Shay Banon (System Architect at GigaSpaces Technologies) and Jason Carreira (Software Architect and a winner of the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge) are sharing their views and experiences on:

• The need for application scalability and high availability
• The advantages and disadvantages of using Amazon virtualization tools (EC2, S3)
• The benefits of using the GigaSpaces scale-out application server together with EC2, in particular for start-ups
• The value of GigaSpaces start-up program
• Jason Carreira's winning project Domain Proxy, which provides a standard way (OpenJPA) to store data on GigaSpaces platform
• Jason Carreira's new project of scaling Twitter
• The motivation, experience and reward of participating in the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge