I’ve been following a blog thread by Hillel from Jackson Fish Market discussing the development trade off’s startups make between features and scalability and I had to point out this link called “The Constipation of Scale”. In his post, Brad Feld does a fairly good job of describing the development trade offs associated with keeping VC’s happy with features, and actually building a solution that scales. And I wanted to respond by describing how one of the startups we have been working with Clearent, was able to release new ‘scalable’ features on a timeline that satisfied their investors.

Clearent is a Credit Card processor that started two years ago with the goal of providing great customer service by being able to scale their company dynamically to meet customer demand. It’s great to hear the CEO Dan Geraty describe the common perception of the industry – “..that you have to start with a certain scale to be effective, and that with the Appistry fabric in place we are able to shatter those barriers to achieve competitive performance and economics with much smaller volumes”. The point is that EAF lets you scale your operations incrementally.

I’ll have to describe technically how the Clearent fabric parallelizes a sequential data processing problem in a future post. But in the mean time, think of it as a mini-Map Reduce.

So no Brad Feld, occasional constipation does not have to be a reality of life.… Appistry’s Enterprise Application Fabric can cure data processing irregularities. Call us and we can show you how…

Until next time…

Mark