egorf

Hi Adam,

It is great to know that there's a logical successor.

As I mentioned above, I work in a company that offers a SAAS that's based on the Device Sync solution. We were weeks away from announcing a collaboration-oriented product based on Atlas, but now these plans are in shambles.

We are actively looking into Ditto now, and the P2P approach to sync is genuinely impressive. So, a couple of questions for you:

1. Is there something in your platform resembling the Flexible sync functionality of Atlas? 2. Do you feel that the partner-first approach will open up some space for Ditto? Have you encountered any Atlas Device Sync functionality that would be impossible to replicate for Ditto in terms of integration with MongoDB?

I am genuinely sad this news does not seem to have gained much traction. I think the technology itself is great and that makes the deprecation announcement so surprising.

We were weeks away from announcing a new product based on Atlas Flexible Sync. Now the project's fate is hanging in the balance.

It's not like I'm defending them. Just trying to understand the real reasoning behind this decision.

This is only my guess, but it should be so much easier to control and regulate Facebook's product rather than Telegram's, right?

They are basically blocking USD competitors. This makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Update: The SEC statement makes more sense than my original comment :)

There's nothing with wrong with yocto itself, it's a build system which allows to create a custom Linux distribution.

It's the way Intel dealt with whole thing, that makes me cringe. It's poorly organized and unaccustomed to any serious changes.

I have worked closely with Intel Edison for quite some time. For $50 it's quite alright, if you take built in wifi onto account.

The real problem is lack of Intel's support. Edison runs an ancient kernel, the yocto image source is full of hacks, which do not suggest big interest in prolonging the device's actuality. Instead, Intel decided to add Arduino compatibility to a x86 Linux board, god knows why.

You can try Emlid's Navio http://www.emlid.com/

It's a RPi based autopilot, it runs Linux and therefore much easier to program and use.