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<p>Dear midPoint community,</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/midscale/">MidScale
project</a> 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.<span id="more-7392"></span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><a
href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/projects/midscale/survey/">Detailed
summary of the results</a> is published on our <a
href="https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/projects/midscale/survey/">documentation
site</a>, including our commentary for every question:</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evolveum.com/midscale-survey-results/">https://evolveum.com/midscale-survey-results/</a><br>
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<p> There are some interesting points to check out.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>(Reposted from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evolveum.com/midscale-survey-results/">Evolveum
blog</a>)</p>
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Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com</pre>
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