[midPoint] Blog: MidScale Survey Results

[Radovan Semancik]

Dear midPoint community,

MidScale project <https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/midscale/> is 
running full speed ahead. The goal of midScale is to significantly 
improve midPoint scalability and performance. The project is about to 
bring substantial changes in midPoint. As some of those changes will 
affect community in numerous ways, we have gathered feedback from 
midPoint community in a survey. The survey is completed and the results 
are in.

First of all, we would like to thank to all the participants. The survey 
was focused on engineering topics, often going deep down into the 
technology. This probably influenced the number of responses, which was 
slightly lower than we expected. However, that also means that each 
response has a relatively stronger influence on a future of midPoint.

Overall, the results validate our plans with MidScale. Although only a 
small portion of the community is reaching our intended scale, the 
responses indicated that the improvements will be useful to a 
significant part of the community. Our decision to focus on PostgreSQL 
was strongly supported by the community. We will keep the existing 
repository implementation, at least for some time. However, our 
direction to move towards PostgreSQL seems to be clear now. There were 
some slightly unexpected results in the auditing area, which in 
hindsight are not really unexpected at all. It looks like we will need 
to focus on a longer-term storage of audit data than we have originally 
anticipated. As for the platform, the Linux is a clear winner. There is 
also a notable tendency to move towards cloud environments. New Java 
versions does not seem to be any significant problem. Which is very good 
news for us. And, most importantly, you seem to be quite happy with 
midPoint! We are very pleased about that, we are happy that midPoint can 
help you address practical identity management challenges.

Detailed summary of the results 
<https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/projects/midscale/survey/> is 
published on our documentation site 
<https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/projects/midscale/survey/>, 
including our commentary for every question:

https://evolveum.com/midscale-survey-results/ 
<https://evolveum.com/midscale-survey-results/>

There are some interesting points to check out.

Opinion of midPoint community is very important for us. We will listen. 
The data will guide the future of midPoint development. Thank you once 
again for participating in the survey.

(Reposted from Evolveum blog 
<https://evolveum.com/midscale-survey-results/>)

-- 
Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com

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