The intended audience of this post is people who either work with taskcluster-base now or are interested in implementing taskcluster services in the future.

Taskcluster serverside components are currently built using the suite of libraries in the taskcluster-base npm package. This package is many things: config parsing, data persistence, statistics, json schema validators, pulse publishers, a rest api framework and some other useful tools. Having these all in one single package means that each time a contributor wants to hack on one part of our platform, she'll have to figure out how to install and run all of our dependencies. This is annoying when it's waiting for a libxml.so library build, but just about impossible for contributors who aren't on the Taskcluster platform team. You need

http://blog.johnford.org/2015/10/splitting-out-taskcluster-base-into.html