Matt Galligan

"This is Matt from SimpleGeo (CEO). Thanks for the writeup! We're really stoked to see all the different kinds of apps looking to leverage our platform. You're absolutely right when it comes to our strengths. Real-time is a huge target for us, mainly because that's the way that the web is going, and in turn, mobile apps need to follow suit. Imagine all of the checkin data that apps represent, people moving throughout the world at a rapid pace. There needs to be an infrastructure that can handle that. I'd like to think that's us. Beyond that, scalability with this data is also of utmost importance. The problem with most solutions today is that they're based on traditional relational databases. Whereas this has worked in the past, the move to real-time, and thus, the insane amount of data being pushed around causes need for an alternative. We've built our on solution based on Google's BigTable and Amazon's Dynamo so that it's multi-mastered, and thus, lacks the "single point of failure"..." - Matt Galligan