This is very timely. For last three years I have been trying to get my Rails developer friend (they build fairly large scale educational products) to take a look at Pharo/Seaside/Gemstone... and, funnily enough, the last time we discussed this was 3 days ago over lunch at our local Cafe.
But this time he didn't say anything. He just passed me his iPad and showed me the Heroku app managing live performance and services of their applications, with real time monitoring for any latency or bottlenecks issues. He told me they could not seriously consider moving to another language/framework without the same peace of mind of knowing the back-end was well taken care of, so they could focus on development... and know that scaling their applications was no longer an issue. It seems that for most enterprises, hosted 'back-end management' is now the single most important factor in the decision making process of what language/framework to go with. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Phaas-anyone-interested-in-setting-up-Pharo-as-a-Service-tp4665479p4665786.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
