A lot of how Wallaroo handles state mirrors what Pat Helland wrote about in "Beyond Distributed Transactions". It ends up having a number of nice features for s

A lot of how Wallaroo handles state mirrors what Pat Helland wrote about in "Beyond Distributed Transactions". It ends up having a number of nice features for stateful applications. You can see it in action in the 15 minute "get to know scale-independence" video that I did: https://vimeo.com/234753585 https://vimeo.com/234753585 Thanks for your comments. - We are pairing down the installation procedure. We couldn't do everything we wanted before we did our first release. - The compiler was changed from upstream. We are in the process of getting back onto mainline ponyc. That should be happening in the next couple weeks at which point, we will be taking the first step in pairing down the instructions. When we were first developing Wallaroo, we wanted to be able to rapidly evolve the Pony runtime as well as Wallaroo itself. To do that, we needed to fork the project. We've gotten almost all of our changes back into the mainline ponyc. - It works on other distributions. We currently only provide instructions for Trusty and Xenial because as you said, it's a somewhat involved process at the moment that we are working on simplifying. - We went back and forth on if we should use docker for the UI. Its written in Elixir and requires that Erlang be installed. After working with some clients, we decided it was easier to provide a docker container.