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by mattnewton 1347 days ago
Cool! That makes sense. I only really used it as part of the (now defunct I think) "orchard" internal hosting platform that was very much beta when I was using it, for tiny internal apps running on like 4 instances at most, and missed being able to just grep log files; my wild, uneducated guess from what you said is that there was some kind of pooling of our meager logs with other people's from orchard, or we were otherwise off the happy path.
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I was part of Orchard and miss it dearly. It had a lot of potential but it was launched as a proof of concept built on pooled resources freed up from optimizing legacy workloads (namely, moving Siri from VMware to Mesos).

It never got the love it deserved and I could absolutely believe that its Splunk cluster suffered as a result. RIP

100% agree, the idea of an internal Heroku was a great one, it just didn't seem to work with how Apple was designed organizationally or something and seemed under resourced.