February 14:th, Vaadin turned ten years old. That's a respectable amount in the technology world and really an astonishing accomplishment. There's a lot of lessons learned on the way, and some interesting factoids not widely known.

A blog post is up on Vaadin's site about this, summarizing the past 10 years in a concise way.

We use it internally - like it a lot. 10 years is indeed a big deal these days...

Best,

Nikita Ivanov.

GridGain Systems.

Vaadin , simplyfied most of my work.

Thanks Vaadin.

Failed ideas rehashed around pretty guis = pigs in a dress.

Just run the demos when Vaadin's server or network is busy and it's glaringly obvious the veneer wears off and why taking advantage of the power of clients is a good thing.