forego

Foreman is a nice, easy to use local process manager. It's what heroku and such use with a simple Procfile for defining multiple processes, but it would work fine for running multiple developer tools, testing services/dependencies, etc. There are multiple implementations of it, heres the canonical one: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman And heres a go version that's easier to install and use: https://github.com/ddollar/forego

You can install any services in your nix dev shell environment. Run them however you desire--a bash script that backgrounds their tasks, systemd user services, supervisord, or any other process manager. edit: A really simple and effective process manager is foreman and its procfile format. I like the golang version of it (simple single binary with zero dependencies): https://github.com/ddollar/forego or https://github.com/mattn/goreman

http://nsq.io/ http://nsq.io/overview/internals.html The service you are thinking of might be https://github.com/ddollar/godist You can see the download links on https://github.com/ddollar/forego use it.

or Forego! https://github.com/ddollar/forego

Heroku is going to loose Solaris and a couple of other secondary target OSes if they go down that route. Golang can cross-compile to Linux, Darwin, Windows and a couple of BSDs. EDIT: It really seems that they are going down that route. They are also working on a Go implementation of Foreman here: https://github.com/ddollar/forego