[chef] Re: Re: Getting off of couchdb?

[Tim Uckun < >]

> The short version; yes we are moving the backend from Sinatra (Ruby) + 
> CouchDB to WebMachine (Erlang) + SQL (MySQL and Postgres specifically). No, 
> this code isn't public yet because the migration is ongoing and it isn't 
> really the kind of thing that we



A couple of thoughts.

1. You may want to leverage zookeeper.
2. You may want to consider torquebox.

I know there are downsides and upsides to everything but both of these
projects have tackled the scalability problem and are quite mature.
Torquebox especially seems very well suited for a chef server. It
comes with a robust messageque, background processing, caching etc as
well as clustering with jboss. As a bonus you can keep all your
sinatra code as it runs any rack application.