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The book review was done by Md Sadruddin and publish on his web site itteratory.com . The part of the review is published here with permission by Md Sadruddin. Last year, as I was working with Apache Ignite, I was desperately in search of a book that I could rely upon in terms of clearing my doubts. A book that would help me learn the product in a holistic manner. And as my search was on, I bumped into the book by   Shamim Ahmed Bhuiyan , Michael Zheludkov, and   Timur Isachenko . I was super impressed with it as I scanned through the book. I also put up a review of that version of the book   here . The product Apache Ignite has been evolving in a rapid speed. It introduced many new features, different architectural revamp etc as the new versions were released. But as the new features got added with the newly released versions, there came a need of the new version of the   book   covering these new features. I found out   Shamim Ahmed ...

From the version 2.4.0, Apache Ignite introduced a new way to connect to the Ignite cluster, which allows communication with the Ignite cluster without starting an Ignite client node. Historically, Apache Ignite provides two notions of client and server nodes. Ignite client node intended as lightweight mode, which does not store data (however, it can store near cache), and does not execute any compute tasks. Mainly, client node used to communicate with the server remotely and allows manipulating the Ignite Caches using the whole set of Ignite API’s. There are two main downsides with the Ignite Client node: Whenever Ignite client node connects to the Ignite cluster, it becomes the part of the cluster topology. The bigger the topology is, the harder it is for maintaining. In the client mode, Apache Ignite node consumes a lot of resources for performing cache operations. To solve the above problems, Apache Ignite provides a new binary client protocol for implementing thin Ignite cl...