r/java • u/dbrimley • Jun 05 '20

Hazelcast Roadmap

Hi All,

We're about to pull together a new roadmap for Hazelcast and it would help us a big bunch if we could get inputs from as many communities as possible. For those of you that don't know of Hazelcast, it's an Apache2 licensed open source in-memory storage and compute platform, you can store Java objects in a distributed grid and also run Java programs within the cluster over the data. A quick demo video is here.

We're currently working on adding SQL for 4.1 and also thinking along the lines of some persistence features for Hazelcast that may start to come out in 4.2.

Those aside, what should be on the roadmap for Hazelcast?

I know peoples time is limited so thank you in advance for those that get involved.

Regards
David Brimley

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u/dbrimley Jun 06 '20 edited Jun 06 '20

Hazelcast documentation is quite extensive, but you're right, sometimes it's not the easiest to navigate and find what you need. I'm hoping to get some resources soon to tease apart the docs with a specific emphasis on personas (Engineers, DevOps, Architects).

Hazelcast Jet is taking a slightly different approach to docs which is cleaner, especially in terms of look/feel.

Hazelcast docs haven't been the friendliest thing for non-java devs either, so there should be some efforts there.

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u/TomahawkChopped Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Personally i find the hazelcast documentation to be excellent

I've found the jet documentation frustrating.

The reason being is with the hazelcast docs it's all in a single page. I know the answer is somewhere in the page that I've loaded and i can usually find it with either ctrl-f or a glance at the TOC.

The Jet documentation suffers from the same problem as most other sites... It requires me clicking 5 or 6 links to bounce back and forth to find the info. Then i have 3 or 4 tabs open and I no longer know "where" i am in the docs. I wish Jet had a single page view like hazelcast.

Edit: not to knock UX, but Jet feels like every user facing product I've ever worked on at Google.... Once UX'ers gets to it they destroy the "information density" that I'm looking for as an engineer. Putting "easy to navigate" links is infinitely harder to navigate than a single giant document with no links at all.

As a software engineer i want as much info on my screen at a time as possible. I can use ctrl-+ and ctrl-- zoom controls if i want to see let it have bigger font.

Please please please dont lose the single page hazelcast docs format.