Bain Capital Ventures Prediction ‘Ranking’ By @AriaSystemsInc | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

Enterprise resource planning systems like SAP ran manufacturing-economy companies that made widgets. In the digital economy, systems like Aria are the new ERP. Seventeen of the Fortune 500 companies launched on the Aria Active Monetization platform in 2014. Event-oriented non-blocking reactive applications will be ever more important. In late 2014, Amazon announced AWS Lambda, a distributed compute service that runs code in response to events and manages the compute resources automatically and elastically for you, so you don’t have to think about machines, disks, memory and queue servers. I made two investments in this theme. One is Typesafe, the company that’s commercializing Scala, Akka and Play, the language and frameworks that promote event-oriented reactive programming. The other is Iron.io, which provides an AWS Lambda-like queuing and execution service on all clouds (not just Amazon) and also on-premise.

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