Re:Faster – A key-value store for large state management
by manigandham on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:47PM
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I understand the situation, but have to disagree here. Let's face it, this industry is always in flux and things change, that's the only constant there is. However Microsoft is one of the best in the world at maintaining product support and backwards compatibility, often through decades. You can still run apps on Windows written in the 90s. You can even upgrade from DOS through Win 10 and still have a working operating system at the end. [1]
Yes, some small MS projects die, but overall you can still run almost all the old stuff, and interop and upgrade to the latest when you're ready. AppFabric extended support is through April 2022 [2], which is 4 years from now. It's possible you never got an update about it but regardless, they still support it. That being said, the cloud has changed everything and there are just more options now. In-memory distributed computing particularly has seen an incredible pace of progress with everything from Apache Ignite to Apache Spark so I think you would likely have more work to keep up with changes had you gone with another stack from the beginning.
Yes, some small MS projects die, but overall you can still run almost all the old stuff, and interop and upgrade to the latest when you're ready. AppFabric extended support is through April 2022 [2], which is 4 years from now. It's possible you never got an update about it but regardless, they still support it. That being said, the cloud has changed everything and there are just more options now. In-memory distributed computing particularly has seen an incredible pace of progress with everything from Apache Ignite to Apache Spark so I think you would likely have more work to keep up with changes had you gone with another stack from the beginning.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60HHWWo9z4
2. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appfabric/2015/06/19/micros...