Our approach was to re-use as much existing technology as possible, which is not the case for most others. That's the "complication" I'm referring to here. Empi

Our approach was to re-use as much existing technology as possible, which is not the case for most others. That's the "complication" I'm referring to here. Empire grew from the need for a production grade platform that was going to be stable. Empire doesn't actually lock you into ECS. The scheduling backend is pluggable and could support Kubernetes/Swarm in the future.