NoSQL, asynchronous programming, server-side Javascript, Extreme Transaction Processing, user experience design, game play, online2offline... the ever-changing landscape of technologies and practices raises some questions for our customers, which don’t always know where to turn themselves. What platform for my project? What feature? Is this a fad? What's the next step?

Every month af83 teams will address an emerging, structuring and promising topic and provide a point of view and recommendations on that matter. We hope that Scale will help our customers identify and leverage the opportunities laying in the newest technologies and practices.

We have chosen to name this space Scale, because scalability is at the heart of the most successful applications, enabling them to sustain growing workloads and newer practices without requiring major changes. Scalability is the ultimate premium for our customers, because scalable applications lasts, and makes scalable, lasting, businesses.

All the files are available for consultation directly on scale.af83.com, but you can also download them in PDF format, and freely spread it to your contacts by e-mail.

Featured in the first issue, af83 sheds light on the NoSQL phenomenon.