In this column, we explore the applicability of the programming language Scala (www.scala-lang.org) together with Lift (http://liftweb.net) as a development framework for the Web. Scala offers strong functional capabilities, and Lift exploits Scala's benefits, described later, to implement a typed, extensible, event-based Web programming model.

This blog post discusses the new architecture for data storage that's becoming more popular today. Instead of using an RDBMS as the universal hammer, we can use multiple storage types and model our data closer to the semantics of the domain model.

A hybrid data model based stack being used in a real life application model today. The stack uses Oracle and MongoDB in collaboration backed up with a messaging infrastructure.

In software development geographically distributed development models are very common these days. With offshore development becoming a dominant paradigm today, it's very realistic to have a combined onshore/offshore delivery mechanism. This implies a virtual 24 hour work cycle at a substantially reduced cost leading to a higher ROI for the stakeholders.