panghy

I seem to think that cloud providers are particular opaque about small glitches (i.e. they aren't going to tell you that a router or switch was rebooted for maintenance if it comes back right away and you can email support and it's always the same response: "it's working right now") :)

We basically replaced mySQL, Zookeeper and HBase with a single KV store that supports transactions, watches, and scales. It's not a trivial point that you can just develop code against a single API (finally Java 8 CompletableFutures) and not have to set up a ton of dependencies when you are building on top of FDB. We are (obviously) experts at monitoring FoundationDB with Wavefront and we hope to release the metric harvesting libraries and template dashboards that we use to do so.

Almost 5 years in and we have not lost any data (but we have lost machines, connectivity, seen kernel panics, EBS failures, SSD failures, etc., your usual day in AWS =p).

Nope, the actor compiler is down with mono and your need windows to compile the windows client. When we were independently working on it, we just ditched the windows code completely (we are a mac/linux shop)

We worked on the codebase independently (we have escrow). We run petabyte-scale clusters in aws.

We run both, memory engine hasn't seen too many updates in the last 3 years though. For SSDs, we use i3 as well as EBS-backed volumes.

Everything is fair game, being a monitoring company, we certainly will have first-class fdb support. We already have tons of workflows and templates.