First, a little history…
About 6 months ago we began using Grails for our new and ever growing set of REST apis. Overall our experience has been great. Grails has really allowed us to accelerate development and focus on the things that are important to us. Naturally, when we started talking about Sierra and knew that we’d need to build a user dashboard, admin console, etc… we turned to Grails.
Grails is implemented using Groovy, which is a scripting language that runs in the Java JVM. Seeing as the rest of the Saffron stack uses Java this was another strong selling point for us, but it also means that in order to stand up Sierra we’d have to jump through all of the same hoops that come along with running a Java stack.
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