Using Groovy and Grails for Product Development

I was recently interviewed for the IndicThreads website around my thought of using Groovy and Grails as the language and platform to develop a product on. I am a strong believer in this, and although there may have been some initial resistance, I encouraged the team to use it to develop Aegeon‘s flagship product Spaceo.us on.

The main benefits you get from are that you are actually developing on a robust base, being Java (Grails is Spring & Hibernate under the covers) and you are able to focus on building product functionality than writing plumbing code.

Read more about my thoughts in the interview.