Nice! On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Ed Anuff <e...@anuff.com> wrote: > I made mention of this during my presentation at the Cassandra Summit > back in July, but we're finally ready to release the source for > Usergrid. This is a mobile platform stack built on top of Cassandra > and using Hector and we're making the full source code available on > GitHub. We'll be offering it as a cloud service as well, but we > wanted to follow the WordPress model of having both self-hosted and > self-serve options. > > Usergrid provides a bunch of cool features like activity streams, user > management, and counter-based analytics as well as providing a very > high-level fully indexed JSON-based data model via a REST API, so that > you can unlock a lot of the power of Cassandra directly from > Javascript. It's meant for mobile app developers who really want to > just focus on their front-end development. Particularly cool is the > double-clickable launcher app that fires up an embedded Cassandra > server and makes running all this on your desktop a piece of cake. > > Our blog is at: http://blog.usergrid.com > > The code is up at: http://github.com/usergrid/stack > > Documentation is at: http://usergrid.github.com/docs > > Main website is: http://www.usergrid.com > > There's a mailing list set up for discussion at: > http://groups.google.com/group/usergrid-user > > It's still a work-in-progress and there's a lot in there that still > needs to be documented. > > Hope you'll check it out and find it interesting. Even if it's not > something you'd have use of yourself, please forward this on to people > you know who are trying to build data-rich mobile apps. > > Thanks > > Ed >
-- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
