Why Homegrown finally went with NATS

[Far-L]

Originally Posted by HypeDough

We're going with NATS as well very soon, I've worked with it in the past and it seems as though the affiliates go nuts over it once its implemented.

Good luck with it!

Definitely it makes a huge difference. We could never get affiliates enthusiastic about RevEx no matter how hard we tried... and we tried hard but it was kind of a case of square peg round hole and never quite worked out. This was as much our fault as theirs though since we required so many customized work-arounds.

We use carma too so it is a plus for us to work with someone that covers our needs end to end which we have never had before in our more cobbled together efforts of the past.

That is probably one of the great "take aways" of the experience... that too many "boxes" in out-of-the-box solutions create more problems than solutions. Software management is not like hi fidelity audio hardware where you buy the best of each manufacturer's components and put them together for an awesome collective sound. I should have realized this better after reading a good book on software engineering and management called "The Mythical Man-month", a good cautionary tale for anyone that faces these issues.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Far-L

I should have realized this better after reading a good book on software engineering and management called "The Mythical Man-month", a good cautionary tale for anyone that faces these issues.

Systems 101 - manpower planning

Take the estimate, increase the time unit, double the quanity
1 man month ===> 2 man years