FAI
Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) is a tool for mass unattended deployment of Linux. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the systems are installed and completely configured.
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PowerShell Desired State Configuration
DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.
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Riemann
Riemann aggregates events from servers and applications, notifies exceptions, tracks latency, collects system statistics and more, all with a powerful stream processing language
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Zipkin
A distributed request tracking system, useful for micro-service and distributed architectures written in Scala
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