Quimby is Walmart's service layer for mobile clients' configuration, CMS, a-b testing setup, and a few other sundry related services. It stitches together a constellation of data sources into a concise menu of API calls that mobile clients make to intialize and configure themselves.
Quimby is a REST service layer based upon the Gogo micro-service framework that we in turn built with Node.js, Hapi, Zookeeper, and Redis. Gogo is able to expose an array of web servers as a single host, and offers the ability to isolate tasks into smaller focused processes, emphasizing scalability and failure recovery. For example, a failure in any micro-service will not affect the life cycle of a request. Gogo also offers the additional features required to build distributed services with shared state, such as leader election.
- Penny (part of Gogo) - The micro-service router, responsible for pairing a request with a servicer