Much of the architecture of yoke was inspired by manatee. In fact, we&#x27;ve spent the last 2 years working with Joyent on smartos and illumos, so we were heavily inspired by the great engineering behind manatee.<p>Manatee didn&#x27;t work for our use cases, which should not be interpreted as &quot;manatee is bad&quot;. Here are a few of the reasons we forged a different solution:<p>- While node.js is a great language for many things, we didn&#x27;t want the overhead of running the node.js&#x2F;v8 runtime alongside postgres. 50M might seem negligible, but with thousands of postgres clusters for our clients every MB adds up.<p>- We didn&#x27;t want the administrative overhead of managing a zookeeper cluster, and instead built the cluster management semantics directly into the yoke project.<p>- This may be different now, but at the time manatee was very heavily integrated into illumos&#x2F;smartos. We really love smartos, but recognize that not all clients are able to use this tech.