This article introduces Fwissr, the configuration registry tool that we use to centralize all our configurations.
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More than five years ago, when we started to build what became fotopedia, we had a main Rails application, a Merb application for user authentication and another Merb application for photo upload. These applications were deployed by Capistrano, and our servers were configured with Puppet with some scripts to glue everything together.
As the system evolved, we slowly got rid of many of these applications and started adding other components in the application stack. Puppet was replaced by [Chef](htt