Why S8 exists
Serious products keep paying the same tax: a web server here, a front framework there, a database product, an orchestration layer, and a small embassy of glue between them. S8 takes the opposite bet. The stack is unified. The key features are already supplied, tightly assembled, in JAVA.
Think of it as Spring Boot, four steps ahead — not because it has more annotations, but because the front, the databases, and the runtime are in the same process and the same API.
Mission
Collapse the distance between an idea and a running product. Make projects that once looked financially out of reach possible for a small, sharp team.
Simple
Less is More
JAVA Core to code the entire app (back, front, db). A unified API to code and deploy. Launched in no time
Secure
Paranoid mode enabled
Zero dependencies means bullet-proof defense against vicious open source vulnerabilities insertion in foundations libraries. And the basics: encryption...
Small
Small-Surface API
The number of things you need to know to start coding on the S8 Stack is astonishingly low! Even if you start a top tier complexity project. So you can build features instead of doing IT stuff
Synced
High concurrency architecture
Because scaling to high volume requires to think asynchronous since day 1, we have done it for you under the hood (you don't even have to know what a light thread is).
Storage
Embedded DB and caching
Annotated your objects and we provide under the hood the most efficient caching and databases accesses.
Structured
Graph DB, native version
Handle large objects in db with arbitrary graph shapes. Attach resources directly to objects, leveraging S8 full binary architecture. Go back in time on natively versioned data.
Screen
Your front as a remote screen
Handle directly your front components from the back. Use standards to create new ones with extension mechanisms.
Scalable
Lake of nodes
Use cluster of S8 instances to achieve resilience, load balancing and back-up at arbitrary level.
The people
S8 is designed at AlphaVentor. We are a small self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and the stack itself. Small on purpose: the product has to be usable by a single-person orchestra, so the people who build it should know what that feels like.
Contact: contact@alphaventor.com
Trademark & license
S8 sources carry copyright Pierre Convert. All rights reserved unless a module LICENSE says otherwise. The name S8 / Stack8 identifies the stack. The site is published at stack8.tech.