Planet Midgard: Archive

Nemein has shifted focus in November 2004 on the performance of deployed solutions and Midgard competence. Performance improvements have been made into the Midgard Content Management System and the OpenPSA Support customer service system. Performance improvement of these modules and the whole Midgard environment continues.

The performance improvements to the Midgard Content Management System have been centralized to the mRFC 0006 compatible filesystem migration of the MidCOM component technology. This brings an estimated 25% performance improvement to all websites implemented with MidCOM. When Turck MMCache optimizer is being used the performance may be improved up to 50%. The new 1.9 version of MidCOM is now being used in several testing environments at Nemein and will be deployed to clients by end of 2004.

The improvements made for OpenPSA Support affect mostly large enterprise environments. Through the improvements the assignee lists and query lists of customer feedback load much faster. In one client environment loading times were halved.

More Midgard Competence

Piotr Pokora, the Polish Release Manager of the Midgard Project joined Nemein team in November. Piotras's Midgard competence focuses on the C core of Midgard and he will be working on the new, more efficient MgdSchema data abstraction layer. MgdSchema will enable usage of different databases and programming environments (including .Net, Ruby and Python). First versions of MgdSchema are expected in early spring.

In addition to MgdSchema development, Piotras has implemented several bug fixes into Midgard for Nemein. At the moment he is working on making Midgard's NTLM Single Sign-On for Windows networks work better.