Our Goals

We made it lightweight and kept the efficiency in mind:

Self-contained

We ship a single dependency-free binary that runs on all Linux distributions
Fast to deploy, safe to operate

We are sysadmins, we know the value of operator-friendly software
Deploy everywhere on every machine

We do not have a dedicated backbone, and neither do you,
so we made software that run over the Internet across multiple datacenters
Highly resilient
to network failures, network latency, disk failures, sysadmin failures