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How Cool is Bungee Jumping?

Posted by Steve Spencer

Article posted on Aug 11

Of course, I mean Bungee Labs, not actual Bungee jumping with a massive band tied to my heels… Sorry to let down all of you who might be convinced it would break

So how cool is Bungee labs and their Bungee Connect solution? I don’t know… but I’m gonna find out.

I had a chance to spend some time with the a few of the Bungee crew and talk at length about their vision. It sounds pretty cool. Basically it’s a “sandbox”, similar to how a JVM or an App server sort of protect you and the environment from each other, and they do a lot of the dirty work you don’t want to, and make certain resources available to you.

Only they take it further…

They give you your IDE, your tools and dev environment, CVS, a simple way to roll out a test environment, etc. This is all deployed on their servers (or more appropriately Amazon S3 servers) instantly. So basically you do “add developer”, and SHAZAM you’re literally ready to run in no time. Plus, your production or test environments can run out on the S3… they handle all of that. They also have the option to license and run it inside you own environment if you need to. I’d love to see them add Bug tracking as well (they have plans for this in the future).

All in all it sounds really cool. It really is taking the concept of outsourcing, and of using various resources much more in an “object” like mentality to the next level.

The concern however, is that it does require using their own language. Okay, so this might be a concern, or depending on the language, it might be an opportunity. Will developers adopt it? Is it powerful enough? Can they develop quickly?

These are some of the questions that Bungee will be helping to make clear to us all during an exciting event they have planned this week: The Bungee Skunk Day.

This will allow 10 teams of developers to showcase what they have been able to develop in Bungee Connect. Want to see what it can do? Here’s your chance.

Bungee has given me the opportunity to come down and be one of the judges for this event. I couldn’t be more pleased. I am excited to see the fruits of their labors. Additionally, I will be doing a writeup ere of what I thought of the event, the apps, and Bungee in general.

I hope to see you there! Here are the official details from Bungee:

At SkunkDay, Bungee employee show off different web apps that they have been building on our platform, Bungee Connect. Some of the apps may be very cool. Some may be quite funny. Many will be extremely geeky.

Yes, there will be refreshments. Yes, there will be food. Yes, it’s a great excuse to get out of the office (I suggest, “I’m heading out on a very important research mission on web technologies, chief!”). And, yes, you will get to enjoy the ambience of basement auditorium of an Orem-based, late 80’s business park.

The event begins at 2:30 p.m. on August 13. After a short reception, the cabaret-style show begins.

So, put it on your calendar right now. Feel free to bring along any developers and techie-geeks you would like. And please, RSVP on the Facebook Event (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19414984919), or by emailing brittany@bungeelabs.com so that we can get an accurate count of people who plan to attend.