rttp

put/get/subscribe. rmi api 1000 writes/sec
Q: any 4th operation like sql-like query?
Q: indexing?

subscription with predicates
Q: how does subscription work again? what does it do?
Q: MOM?

Master node -> replication nodes. conflated updates?

optimistic locking -> concurrent modification exception

code quality
unit test
heavy engineering
no biz user interaction
Q: quality vs quantity

-- sales pitch
ease of use. coherence is a complicated product. not many people know how to use it
proven. "look, it works"

--users
eq finance ie sec lending (front office, latency sensitive)
cash eq
Exchange traded derivatives
futures
fx
clearing
STP
-----------eq deriv data services
biggest client is risk batch running on a compute grid
100G in memory, 400G in DB

tech skills:
#1 Java
#2 design patterns
SQL. All tuning is handled by DBA
threads
java sockets
IO
net
restful web service