<s>
Flynn	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
platform	I-Application
as	O
a	O
service	O
(	O
PaaS	B-Application
)	O
claiming	O
it	O
supports	O
everything	O
that	O
can	O
run	O
on	O
Linux	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
creators	O
are	O
trying	O
to	O
distinguish	O
Flynn	B-Application
from	O
competitors	O
by	O
using	O
a	O
modular	O
structure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flynn	B-Application
can	O
be	O
run	O
on	O
a	O
local	O
machine	O
,	O
in	O
the	O
cloud	O
or	O
on	O
a	O
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
supports	O
twelve-factor	B-General_Concept
apps	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2013	O
,	O
Flynn	B-Application
started	O
a	O
crowdfunding	O
campaign	O
that	O
generated	O
over	O
$75	O
,	O
000	O
,	O
the	O
campaign	O
was	O
self-run	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
a	O
development	O
period	O
of	O
nine	O
months	O
,	O
Flynn	B-Application
released	O
its	O
first	O
preview	O
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
the	O
time	O
of	O
August	O
13	O
,	O
2014	O
,	O
Flynn	B-Application
was	O
in	O
beta	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flynn	B-Application
then	O
focused	O
on	O
stability	O
of	O
the	O
service	O
and	O
held	O
a	O
feature	O
freeze	O
until	O
its	O
first	O
production	O
stability	O
stable	O
candidate	O
,	O
meaning	O
no	O
new	O
features	O
would	O
be	O
added	O
until	O
then	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
exception	O
of	O
the	O
appliance	O
framework	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
this	O
time	O
Flynn	B-Application
also	O
announced	O
that	O
they	O
raised	O
over	O
a	O
million	O
US	O
dollars	O
from	O
investors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
November	O
4	O
,	O
2015	O
,	O
the	O
launch	O
of	O
the	O
stable	O
release	O
channel	O
for	O
Flynn	B-Application
was	O
announced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Three	O
years	O
after	O
the	O
start	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
,	O
on	O
July	O
26	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
Flynn	B-Application
announced	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Flynn	B-Application
1.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
September	O
21	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
Managed	O
Flynn	B-Application
,	O
also	O
called	O
"	O
Ops	O
as	O
a	O
service	O
"	O
,	O
was	O
announced	O
as	O
a	O
service	O
in	O
addition	O
to	O
their	O
at	O
that	O
time	O
already	O
existing	O
commercial	O
support	O
and	O
training	O
products	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flynn	B-Application
is	O
built	O
mostly	O
in	O
Go	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flynn	B-Application
uses	O
Ubuntu	B-Operating_System
16.04	O
LTS	O
amd64	O
as	O
their	O
base	O
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apps	O
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
either	O
by	O
Docker	O
containers	O
or	O
as	O
Heroku	O
buildpacks	O
,	O
Flynn	B-Application
has	O
built-in	O
support	O
for	O
both	O
methods	O
so	O
no	O
additional	O
installs	O
are	O
needed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flynn	B-Application
does	O
n't	O
make	O
use	O
of	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
more	O
recent	O
app-delivery	O
techniques	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
,	O
for	O
instance	O
,	O
is	O
n't	O
used	O
in	O
Flynn	B-Application
because	O
it	O
did	O
n't	O
exist	O
when	O
Flynn	B-Application
was	O
created	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flynn	B-Application
instead	O
has	O
its	O
own	O
scheduler	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Two	O
reasons	O
why	O
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
support	O
has	O
n't	O
been	O
implemented	O
are	O
the	O
effort	O
required	O
to	O
do	O
so	O
and	O
its	O
future	O
direction	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
Jonathan	O
Rudenberg	O
,	O
co-founder	O
of	O
Flynn	B-Application
,	O
reported	O
that	O
"	O
...	O
,	O
it	O
's	O
possible	O
that	O
doing	O
that	O
change	O
will	O
make	O
sense	O
at	O
some	O
point	O
in	O
the	O
future	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Flynn	B-Application
's	O
documentation	O
states	O
that	O
the	O
databases	O
are	O
not	O
currently	O
stable	O
for	O
storing	O
large	O
amounts	O
of	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
