Luke Kanies
Nashville, TN (USA)
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Founder
Reductive Labs
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Nashville
Description:
Reductive Labs is solving the problem of managing large networks of servers. It is essentially straightforward to keep one or a couple of machines running well, but as the number of machines goes up the amount of time spent maintaining them scales almost linearly. Traditional automation techniques like automated installers and scripts using ssh in a for loop work to reduce that scale some, but hand-rolled mechanisms for managing large networks fall short rather quickly.
There are already tools that exist that attempt to solve this problem, but all of those tools have significant shortcoming
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Reductive Labs
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Location:
Nashville
Industry:
Technology/Web
Year Founded:
2005
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Description:
Reductive Labs is solving the problem of managing large networks of servers. It is essentially straightforward to keep one or a couple of machines running well, but as the number of machines goes up the amount of time spent maintaining them scales almost linearly. Traditional automation techniques like automated installers and scripts using ssh in a for loop work to reduce that scale some, but hand-rolled mechanisms for managing large networks fall short rather quickly.
There are already tools that exist that attempt to solve this problem, but all of those tools have significant shortcomings. In the OSS arena, cfengine is the most widely adopted server automation tool available, but it has very limited expressive capability and it is very difficult to add new functionality to it. There