CNCF and Synadia announced on 1st May, that NATS project will continue to thrive in the cloud native open source ecosystem of the CNCF with Synadia’s continued support and involvement.
Actually when I started looking into a solution before creating my mine, Datomic was the one I settled on.
But it's licensing kin'of put me of. I'm more into FOSS solutions.
But I agree, Datomic shall make the list... I'll update it.
I'll checkout neversleep, is it stable for Dev spikes.
There is no big and reputable company when it comes to competition. Discuss at business level and provide all offfering details as to your customers. That shall give a fair idea.
Detailed code exploration, shall be a no.
Actually a little bit of Python/PHP is fine..... even if you need to learn more depends on what kind of facilities you want at backend.
I'd suggest you to get hold of learning some Web-App framework (as Django, or WebPy for Python) which would ease up most of basic setup for you and keep you in design level constraints required for a web-app.
C++0x has lambdas and that is the nearest language to a C Language admirer..... and just using C++ doesn't implement using OOP practices... C++ doesn't force you to do OOP it just avails you the privilege
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