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Well suited for small organizations to medium-sized teams/organizations. Apache Archiva is well suited for: It acts as a central repository/proxy of the artifacts generated and used by the teams.It provides control on which open source repositories can be utilized by the team.Saves network bandwidth by reducing outbound traffic.Apache Archiva is less appropriate for organizations where immediate support/bug resolutions are required.Incentivized
RubyGems is a great packaging library primarily because of its verbose logging information and easy to navigate system architecture. We've dealt with artifactory systems in the past for Java and JavaScript, and RubyGems just makes it a lot easier to handle the packaging and deployment of our reusable libraries. We've noticed in the past that there are times where (if all 200+ teams) are releasing at a similar time that publishing the gems can lag, but that's fairly rare.Incentivized
It's an open source project and therefore saves cost.It allows exchange of artifacts/libraries between different teams.It allows managing internal and external repositories with ease.Incentivized
Seemless packagingWell documentedVerbose error logsActive community supportQuick security fixes/releasesIncentivized
Muti-tenancy was hard to achieve.UI can be improved. Its seems bit dated.It is a bit tricky to setup.Incentivized
Lack of solid Windows support.Not great performance if lots of people release at the same time.Incentivized
RubyGems has strong community support and finding issues to errors is as simple as searching for the error message you're receiving (but usually the error is clear enough without having to bother with that). Honestly, the framework is simple enough that support isn't needed much, but it has been helpful to us in the past when we have needed it.Incentivized
Apache Archiva is a great choice for organizations with a limited budget.Alternatives are expensive to acquire Archiva comes offers REST API(s) which allows the creation of customized UI.With Apache Archiva, it is easy to manage the remote proxy repositories.RBAC helps with managing user access to the repository.Configuration can be achieved using UI and stored in archiva.xml.Backup of configuration is quite simple.Incentivized
RubyGems is easier to use and to troubleshoot issues overall. Sometimes when troubleshooting in other systems errors are masked and it takes a trained eye or a lot of time searching through Google trying to find out what it really means. RubyGems is very verbose and allows for quick troubleshooting of any deployment problems.Incentivized
The impact of Apache Archiva on ROI has been positive. Since it is open source. It is free.It has allowed teams to store artifacts centrally, thus leading to a reduced need for multiple serversSecurity audits can be easily performed on the artifacts.Incentivized
Quick package hosting.Faster deployment process.Less troubleshooting needed during deployment.Incentivized