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» Terracotta Server as a Message Bus — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:39:49 +0000

[...] a few weeks ago I made two predictions for 2008, but both centered around Terracotta. Since that time, I’ve gone deeper into the server and [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:37:41 +0000

I share your enthusiasm for Terracotta. It’s just so damn… ‘elegant’. I hate using that word for tech stuff but in this case it’s justified. It’s just brilliant. Terracotta is clearly the way of the future for distributing procedural code.

By: Orion Letizi

Orion Letizi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:59:20 +0000

Not surprisingly, I agree with you on all points. I’m really glad you pointed out the helpful error message. It did, in fact, take a lot of work to get those to be helpful, but it’s absolutely critical to ease of use. Software just isn’t interesting if it’s not easy to use. I’d rather write it myself if I can’t figure out how to use it.