swineherd

swineherd -- A uniform interface for running and configuring messy programs

• Runner -- Low level facility for launching a process in a strictly defined environment, collecting its output. [The runner should handle safety (e.g. escaping) of commandline execution.]

• Translator -- Two roles:

  • Input: Concrete mapping from a uniform configliere specification to a expicit runner invocation.
  • Output: Takes the output of the process collected by the runner and extracts a structured collection of metrics.

• Template: Set of conventions for writing ERB (e.g in pig, R)

• Filesystem -- see wukong-fs