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Meteor Raises $20M

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Re: Meteor Raises $20M

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Post by yannski »

smanuel wrote: post #20
rywalker wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meteor's hosting platform will be optimized for websocket-oriented always-connected applications, with monitoring/auto-scaling features for that sort of app.

Hmm, I didn't know that apps that use websockets needed a different kind of auto-scaling and monitoring. That's interesting. Thanks!

Yep, that's... interesting. For sure real time web application needs better reactivity when scaling up and down. But you can already achieve this kind of reaction time on existing platforms that uses Docker for example (disclaimer: I'm working on the Scalingo PaaS that already supports MeteorJS app, see https://scalingo.com/meteorjs-hosting).

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ep103 wrote: post #3

I just wish it wasn't so tightly integrated into everything. I'd love to use Meteor as a library, but I'm always afraid of choosing something that I can't replace later. Either way, best of luck to them!

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Post by wishinghand »

sergiotapia wrote: post #11

I looked into Meteor and it's amazing how everything clicks together. It's just such a drastic change in complexity and feels like a breath of fresh air. The one thing that made me drop it as the choice for a primary stack was the fact that it's tied so heavily into MongoDB. Meteor has a mongodb 'server' replicated client side, that's how they can actually make Meteor so god damn snappy, it's latancy compensation. If…

Postgresql would be great, though if they wanted to keep the document style database of Mongo, maybe they could use something like RethinkDB and use its javascript driver?

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Post by sergiotapia »

TimJRobinson wrote: post #24

Is anyone here running Meteor in production? I've seen so many intro's and demo's and prototypes but have yet to see any actual products / companies built around it yet.

Check their home page - and those exact words you used just now, those look awfully familiar to what people used to write when Rails first came out. :)

I have such high hopes for Meteor!

Re: Meteor Raises $20M

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Post by sergiotapia »

murbard2 wrote: post #18

I'm actually looking into meteor at the moment, and the financial backing is a big plus, as it gives me some guarantee that the project will keep being maintained for the foreseeable future. It is indeed a breeze to prototype applications with it, but I am a little bit concerned about the costs of getting an actual production ready site with it. For intance, when is it ever OK to let your client write directly in the…

Do yourself a favor and set aside a weekend to go through this book: https://www.discovermeteor.com/

All of your questions are answered there.

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Post by juliangregorian »

sergiotapia wrote: post #11

I looked into Meteor and it's amazing how everything clicks together. It's just such a drastic change in complexity and feels like a breath of fresh air. The one thing that made me drop it as the choice for a primary stack was the fact that it's tied so heavily into MongoDB. Meteor has a mongodb 'server' replicated client side, that's how they can actually make Meteor so god damn snappy, it's latancy compensation. If…

I'm apprehensive of the security model. Everything is highly ease-of-use optimized, to the point that you can query Mongo via the browser console.

My preferred "easy/simple" model of app design is Firebase (backend and JS lib for pure web clients), who have security figured out.

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