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Flynn cofounder here, happy to answer any questions
by danielsiders 12y ago
Flynn cofounder here, happy to answer any questions
- cdonaghy 12y agoWhat exactly is it? I'm sorry, I don't think I have enough experience to understand from your website
- danielsiders 12y agoIn the simplest sense it's an open source Paas (think Heroku), but with much more flexible technology. It's designed for ops teams who can run a single platform instead of doing custom deployment work for each application and database
- jamra 12y agoCould you explain to me what an ops team is? Could you also explain to me what running a single platform instead of custom deployment means? A lot of solutions solve that problem. I don't understand how your product does that.
- danielsiders 12y agoThe ops team at a company is the group responsible for running and scaling the apps after they've been written. The role varies from company to company, but in general they manage databases, underlying infrastructure, and other technology that power apps. You could think of them as the sysadmins or IT team that powers especially public-facing services and websites. Think Twitter, HN, etc. The people in charge for making sure there are no fail whales are the ops team.
- cdonaghy 12y agoAwesome, Thanks!
- mdda 12y agoThat seems like something that should be on the website...
- tekacs 12y agoIs ongoing development primarily being funded by your sponsors and do you have any (public) plans along other paths for the future?
- danielsiders 12y agoWe're currently raising a VC round (we're in the current YC batch). We've already done paid support contracts on the enterprise side and are developing the management service into a SaaS offering.
- dk8996 12y agoOne thing that I really like with other PasS companies is that they package that content up -- setup, architecture, documentation of a n-tier application (I am assuming you already built something like that for contracting work). How would I create a website with database and caching ect... using your services.
- tekacs 12y agoGreat, thanks for sharing. :)
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- jhawk28 12y agoAny plans to integrate with kubernetes?
- Titanous 12y agoNo, we have our own scheduling framework and schedulers inspired by the Google Omega paper.
- waitingkuo 12y agoDoes https://dashboard.flynn.io https://dashboard.flynn.io build on top of the beta version of Flynn?
- nogox 12y agoI don't really understand this: "Non-cooperating services often use service discovery information in configuration, such as the backends for a load balancer defined in an HAproxy configuration. A generalized configuration rendering system is used to tie service discovery into most non-cooperating services." The problem is to generate the config file, which etcd doesn't help.
- Titanous 12y agoWe can use sdutil[0] to render info from service discovery into a config template. [0] https://github.com/flynn/flynn/blob/master/sdutil/configure.go https://github.com/flynn/flynn/blob/master/sdutil/configure....
- sanderjd 12y agoLooks like a neat project, best of luck to you! This is a nitpick, but it really turns me off from coming back to applications, and I'd want to know about it if I were you: after I registered on dashboard.flynn.io, neither the password remembering functionality built into chrome nor my password manager (LastPass) seems to know how to autofill your login form. I haven't looked into why that would be at all, but it's a real nuisance!
- jfarmer 12y agoWhat is Flynn? I read the link and the homepage on my phone, and couldn't figure out for the life of me what the product was.
- brusch64 12y agoSorry to be cruel - but I really think you should cut down the usage of buzzwords and abbrevations on your homepage and in describing your service.