[Opensim-dev] moving away from grid vs. standalone

[Tommi Laukkanen]

Well said Michael and I have come to similar conclusions when working
with OpenSim code. There is no need to have separate code for grid and
standalone. You can run the systems using separate executables like
standalone and distributed services and still keep the code base same.
Separate executables are just a question how you deploy and fire up
your system.

I might go even further and make decoupled services discuss over
network even if they are hosted in the same sandbox process. It is not
perfect for sandbox performance but then you would be running the same
code in local testing setup and in production grid. I would say this
is a big quality boost. It would also make everyone more concentrated
on the remote API performance as those APIs would then be used in
sandbox mode as well which is the environment mostly used on
development time testing.

-tommi