Design Principles¶

(Work in progress)

• Use only free software.
• Using the best tool, programming language, or framework for each component is preferable to standardizing on a single platform for the sake of conformity.
• Prefer to integrate established, widely understood components such as ssh, git, and slurm instead of hand rolling our own solutions.
• Use web technologies to tie components together, so programs can access Arvados regardless of programming language or framework.
• In the Arvados platform itself, explicitly make use of Linux and Debian specific features to maximize performance and ease of development.
• For applications that will run on the Aravdos platform, have minimal requirements and be able to run almost anything with just a wrapper script.