Announcing The Apario Client
In Spring 2026, Project Apario will be releasing the highly anticipated Apario Client application that will be globally accessible. This change represents a major rewrite to the story of Project Apario.
Project Apario began in 2020 under the code name of "Crowdsourcing Declas". By the time the first draft of the proof of concept was ready, just 6 weeks later, the PhoenixVault was released. It was a Ruby on Rails monolithic application that ran on 12 bare metal servers and had its own custom build private cloud built for its needs. The costs associated with running a cloud service of this design ran around $7,000/month and was quickly expanding to $14K/month, thus breaking the bank and why the project was halted shortly after going online. With only $4K/month in contributions, I couldn't cover the difference, so I was forced back to the drawing board.
On December 17th, 2023, Project Apario began redesigning the core product from the ground up. Instead of leveraging technologies like Ruby on Rails, MongoDB Atlas, and ElasticSearch; I needed to bring these technology solutions in-house and reduce the OpEx of the service in order to deliver on my promises. Well, Go was selected as the replacement language and the apario-reader was released 2 weeks later. Earlier in the year the apario-writer was upgraded and the time per page to process went down from 90 seconds per page to 3 seconds per page, or a +2,000% boost in performance.
