Interance: The CAF company
We provide technology that enables developers to face the many challenges of building, deploying and operating distributed systems.
Services
CAF is freely available and Open Source. You can ask questions in the public chatroom, on the mailing list or on Stack Overflow and you will usually receive a response within a day.
For professional users of the framework, we also offer the following services:
Support Contracts
Get high priority for reported bugs (highest if the bug may affect your operations) and assistance for troubleshooting CAF-related issues. Support contracts can also include back-porting of fixes (up to a maximum age), guaranteed response times, priority for adding new features, custom integrations and direct contributions to your code base.
Maintenance Subscriptions
Private access to CAF experts via e-mail, phone, video chat, etc. if you do not want to (or are legally not allowed to) ask your questions in a public forum. All consultations are considered confidential.
Workshops & Training
Just getting started with CAF or took some first steps? Great! Interactive workshops and trainings (whether on site or remotely) give your engineers an ideal start. We can help accelerate learning of your engineering team to help them make the right design decisions with confidence.
Architecture & Code Reviews
Building distributed software is hard. We can help you to build scalable solutions with architecture reviews and to improve quality of your software with code reviews.
Interested in our services?
Partners Program
Is CAF is a mission-critical infrastructure for your business? Consider becoming a partner!
Partners sponsor the ongoing Open Source development of CAF to make sure it remains freely available and cannot fall under the control of a competitor. In exchange, partners receive all benefits of a support contract and have a strong influence on the project roadmap. We are happy to recognize partners on the official CAF project homepage but of course respect it if partners choose to stay anonymous.
Please contact Sales if you are considering becoming a partner.
Values
At Interance, we strive to create software that benefits everyone. Both as a company and as individuals. We strive to live up to the following values every day, and we believe that they are critical to our success.
Openness: We believe that keeping an open mind and actively seeking feedback is crucial in all aspects of our work, from our code to our decision-making process.
Innovation: We believe that the best ideas come from diverse perspectives and we actively seek out new and innovative ideas to improve our software, services and processes.
Inclusion: We believe in treating all individuals with respect and dignity. We strive to make our products and services accessible to all, regardless of their background or abilities.
Company
Interance is a tech company in Hamburg, Germany. Its mission is to provide commercial services to professional users of CAF and to fund the Open Source project. We are passionate about translating research into practical solutions that can be used to create real-world impact.
The company was founded in 2022 by CAF’s creator and maintainer Dominik Charousset to meet the growing demand for commercial services surrounding CAF. Advising Dominik in leading the company and advancing the CAF technology stack is Thomas C. Schmidt.
History
The history of Interance begins with CAF.
Ever since its inception in 2011 at the INET working group of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, CAF was available under a permissive Open Source license. This allowed software developers around the world to benefit from the innovations that shaped CAF and to form a community that in turn improved CAF through feedback, code contributions and bug reports.
An increasing number of professional CAF users raised demand for professional services surrounding CAF, in particular commercial support agreements. These needs outgrew the scope of what we could provide as researchers. Hence, we have founded Interance in 2022. Today, Interance is the driving force behind CAF with a strong commitment to Open Source.