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Singly Launches “App Fabric” Platform For Developers

38 points by ctide 14y ago

nohorse 14y ago
Not that anyone else might using that exact same name. Like say, Microsoft.
sk5t 14y ago
I don't know why nohorse's comment is dead--Microsoft has had the AppFabric brand going for at least a couple of years now. I gave it a poke some time ago and don't remember much beyond a rather complicated distributed cache...
- meaty 14y ago
  Its a hosting environment for SOA type applications. It gives distributed corelation, monitoring, persistent workflow and caching capability for WCF Services. Incredibly powerful and a beautiful piece of software but wholly misunderstood by the industry as a whole. We use it for our back end on a couple of things. Yes it is a trademark as well which is going to be interesting.
- tallanvor 14y ago
  His previous comment history gives an idea as to why. But yes, when I saw the title, I thought of Microsoft immediately. And looking at Singly's website, it seems their AppFabric product is very similar to some of the functions Microsoft's product offers. I'm really not sure what Singly was thinking.
hayksaakian 14y ago
Oh I didn't realize they weren't in open beta or release. They've been promoting it at hackathons in Seattle for several months now.
- dpiers 14y ago
  I recently did Angelhack SV with a friend, and knew Singly was going to be big because almost every single team with a login feature was using Singly.
mayop100 14y ago
These guys have a fantastically simple-to-use platform. We've been at a number of hackathons with them and they always get killer adoption because it's something you can get up-and-running within a few hours.
- kristjan 14y ago
  Hours?! I want that to be minutes. Lemme know anything that could be smoother at k@singly.com :)
jamest 14y ago
They way they've used videos on their homepage to tell the stories of their customers is great. It's unique for a dev tools company to take this angle, but I think it's very smart. You should be selling the end and the means.
nodesocket 14y ago
They did a bitchin' job on the website design. Absolutely nailed it, the deme page (https://www.singly.com/demo https://www.singly.com/demo) literally made me say... "Wow".

38 points by ctide 14y ago

Not that anyone else might using that exact same name. Like say, Microsoft.

sk5t 14y ago

I don't know why nohorse's comment is dead--Microsoft has had the AppFabric brand going for at least a couple of years now. I gave it a poke some time ago and don't remember much beyond a rather complicated distributed cache...

meaty 14y ago
Its a hosting environment for SOA type applications. It gives distributed corelation, monitoring, persistent workflow and caching capability for WCF Services. Incredibly powerful and a beautiful piece of software but wholly misunderstood by the industry as a whole. We use it for our back end on a couple of things. Yes it is a trademark as well which is going to be interesting.
tallanvor 14y ago
His previous comment history gives an idea as to why. But yes, when I saw the title, I thought of Microsoft immediately. And looking at Singly's website, it seems their AppFabric product is very similar to some of the functions Microsoft's product offers. I'm really not sure what Singly was thinking.

hayksaakian 14y ago

Oh I didn't realize they weren't in open beta or release. They've been promoting it at hackathons in Seattle for several months now.

dpiers 14y ago
I recently did Angelhack SV with a friend, and knew Singly was going to be big because almost every single team with a login feature was using Singly.

mayop100 14y ago

These guys have a fantastically simple-to-use platform. We've been at a number of hackathons with them and they always get killer adoption because it's something you can get up-and-running within a few hours.

kristjan 14y ago
Hours?! I want that to be minutes. Lemme know anything that could be smoother at k@singly.com :)

jamest 14y ago

They way they've used videos on their homepage to tell the stories of their customers is great. It's unique for a dev tools company to take this angle, but I think it's very smart. You should be selling the end and the means.

nodesocket 14y ago

They did a bitchin' job on the website design. Absolutely nailed it, the deme page (https://www.singly.com/demo https://www.singly.com/demo) literally made me say... "Wow".