Activity Streams status

[mlconnor]

Hey Monica, question for you around Activity Streams.

The specification looks fairly incomplete however and it seems it's not being updated that much. Is the specification still growing strong? Are there better alternatives? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks for this implementation and the article you posted.

Cheers

[jasnell]

I'm obviously not monica.. but, I can field the question. The JSON Activity Streams specification is complete and stable. There's not much going on on the community list because there's really not much work that needs to be done.

[mlconnor]

Thanks James. I'm planning to recommend it within my company for a global rollout but I'm struggling to find vendors that have out of the box solutions. Short of Monica's solution, which is more of a POC than a production ready system, I haven't seen implementations. I've also spoken with the social listening guys from Syncaps and Expion and there is interest but nothing firm.

So is the recommendation to roll your own? I'm looking at storing around 3-4 billion activities per year with and keeping about 3 years worth of data at a time. So somewhere in the neighborhood of 10B records. I guess what I'm saying is that rolling your own falls down when you need robust support, indexing, recovery.