So, where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Dennis Wuthrich, Farallon Geographics

Or one possible future for the Arches platform

As of version 8.1, Arches has become a unique platform for building enterprise-scale data management, integration, visualization, and business process/workflow applications. In response, the Arches community has grown into a critical mass of users, organizations, and developers who are rapidly expanding the number of Arches-based applications in the cultural heritage sector and beyond.

But taking advantage of Arches’ formidable capabilities requires investing time to understand its integrated and sophisticated code, data representations, CRUD operations, APIs, and system configuration and deployment options. Although Arches is powerful it is beginning to require significant effort to manage and test the code and its dependencies, slowing innovation and adoption of the platform.

This talk will make a case for modularizing Arches, arguing that a “Core + Extensions” architecture offers significant benefits over the current “Integrated Platform” code base.