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The article is a comprehensive guide on creating, deploying, and managing the coolstore cart service using Quarkus and Infinispan. The guide details building the cart-service with Quarkus, packaging it, and deploying it to OpenShift. It covers single-site deployment with Infinispan cache configuration and extends to cross-site clustering for data replication and fault tolerance across multiple data centers. The article also addresses schema management and implementing fault tolerance with Smallrye Fault Tolerance for fallback mechanisms acorss multiple site deployments.

Orignally posted at Red Hat Developers Red Hat Data Grid is a distributed, cloud-based datastore offering very fast response times as an in-memory database. The latest version, Data Grid 8.3, features cross-site replication with more observability and two new types of SQL cache store for scaling applications with large datasets. This version also brings improved security, support for Helm charts, and a better command-line interface (CLI). This article is an overview of new features and enhancements in this latest version of Red Hat Data Grid.