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Jan 2014
AdoptWe feel strongly that the industry should be adopting these items. We use them when appropriate on our projects.
Micro-frameworks are emerging as a way to handle increasing complexity in applications both on client- and server-side. Sinatra was one of the first examples of that trend in the server-side space, exposing a lightweight DSL to build fast services that can be easily composed. Similar offerings are available for other languages, including Spark for Java, Flask for Python, Sclatra for Scala, Compojure for Clojure and Nancy for .NET.
May 2013
AdoptWe feel strongly that the industry should be adopting these items. We use them when appropriate on our projects.
Oct 2012
TrialWorth pursuing. It is important to understand how to build up this capability. Enterprises should try this technology on a project that can handle the risk.
Micro-frameworks are emerging as a way to handle increasing complexity in applications both on client- and server-side. Sinatra was one of the early precursors of that trend in server-side space, exposing a lightweight DSL to build fast services that can be easily composed. Flask, Scalatra and Compojure are similar offerings for Python, Scala and Clojure respectively.