Re: Live grails site launch...

Hi there Marco/All,

Well this particular feedback we'll give in greater detail in the coming week but some of the things that are clear are tool support - needs improving, as we all know. Performance was a *big* concern, and to be honest if we didnt have the CDN, hardcore Loadbalancer / Web caching hardware that between them all defer the load, we'd definately have needed a very much larger host of servers to manage.. The site had a heavy load exceeding 1M requests in the first 24hrs, which we've been warned is pretty low levels of load - sure only about 3-4% of that end up being controller calls, but still ..

We also had various complexities involving configuration since we have something like 8 different environments, and we ended up writing a custom plugin to help automate config setup for the respective environment.

If we manage to spend some time conducting a kind of sunset review then we'll feed back what we can to the list..

In terms of getting grails ready for even more primetime, maybe its worth having some section in the docs which goes to the heart of what you need to consider / get right about Grails/groovy code (ie: how u use GORM, size(), list(), closures, configs etc ) to help ready and optimise code for production use by folks out there.. ? Just a thought...

J