I saw your presentation about project FiFo in Erlang User Conference 2014. I asked you what does Joyent think about it, you said they're cool with it (gave you a t-shirt?). At that time, however, Smart Data Center was not open source.<p>Do you still work on FiFo, even with SDC being open? What are the main its selling points compared to SDC?
Can somebody explain what project fifo actually does? Even after spending a bit of time on their web site, I can't tell what problem it's meant to solve, or what appropriate use cases might be.<p>Is it in the same general work-scheduling space as mesos? Kubernetes?
If I may just air a pet peeve: Why do projects name subsystems things like "sniffle", "howl", "jingles" instead of something that gives a freaking clue about what that system does?<p>OpenStack does the same thing with "cinder" and "nova" and "horizon" and "neutron"<p>I guess it's trendy but what's with names that have no relation to function? It really adds to the learning curve or ability for someone on the outside to have a conversation about the system and understand in broad strokes what is going on.
Can anyone tell me what libzdoor is? They list it among other C libraries in this article, but googling it I couldn't find any information about it. Even the github repo has no README. Very unusual not to be able to find info about a library, don't think it's ever happened to me before!
"After some rather unpleasant experiences with angular.js we ended up rewriting the entire UI in ClojureScript / Om."<p>What specifically did you not like about AngularJS? And which version did you use?
> 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.<p>Please, just 'VMs'. There's no need for the apostrophe.