Obviously I disagree with the specifics of relative merits. As a nitpick, Lattice was a project to extract core components out of Cloud Foundry into a self-contained unit intended for experimentation, not a standalone component folded into CF.<p>The feedback was that Lattice is not what developers wanted, so it&#x27;s been wound up in favour of MicroPCF[1], which is a single VM image that runs an entire, actual Cloud Foundry installation.<p>When developers decide they want to scale up to any size, they simply retarget a regular AWS&#x2F;vSphere&#x2F;OpenStack&#x2F;Azure CF API server and push again.<p>I&#x27;m sure Convox has a single-VM version I can tinker with on my laptop.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pivotal-cf&#x2F;micropcf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pivotal-cf&#x2F;micropcf</a>