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>>nathan+(OP)
What is the best introductory post to Rama right now?

I would like to skip the marketing and understand how it compares to a wiring together Kafka, Spark, MySQL, etc.

>>fire_l+Yr
AFAICT it's not actually published yet? It's a bit of a confusing situation because you can "download Rama" but it's not "full", whatever that means. See https://redplanetlabs.com/learn-rama

E: this download has "the full Rama API for use in simulated clusters within a single process", but also "Rama is currently available in a private beta." That's a highly unusual way to release what appears to be a Java library at the end of the day, but hopefully that's because it's unusually awesome! Looking forward to actual info some time in the future. I wonder if the "private beta" costs money...

>>bbor+CS
What we've released publicly on our public Maven repository is a different build of Rama which can only be used for testing/experimentation in a single process. So it can't be used to run full clusters. It's API-equivalent to the full Rama build.

This will change when we move out of private beta, when Rama will be free to use for production for small-scale applications.

>>nathan+j41
Do you have an estimate of when you'll be out of private beta and available? Can you share any more about pricing or what you consider to be a "small-scale application". Thanks!