Often we hear that Project FiFo uses an unusual technology stack. Looking at the past few years of development experience, the stack has proven to be a positive one that continues to prove itself to be the right choice. The following should serve as a rationale for the choices behind each component, and some of the experiences we have had along the way.
The OS
We choose to run all FiFo and related services on SmartOS, the reason for this is simple. Since FiFo manages SmartOS clouds – it would be silly not to “eat our own dog food” and to run FiFo on something else.
We use vanilla SmartOS, so that there is no dependency on FiFo for your running VM’s. You could just switch FiFo off and all your VM’s would continue to just work. It also [Read more…]
