Karyon in the context of molecular biology is essentially "a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction."

At Netflix, Karyon is a framework and library that essentially contains the blueprint of what it means to implement a cloud ready web service. All the other fine grained web services and applications that form our SOA graph can essentially be thought as being cloned from this basic blueprint.

Karyon can be thought of as the nucleus of a blueprint that contains the following main ingredients.

• Bootstrapping , Libraries and Lifecycle Management (via NetflixOSS's Governator)
• Runtime Insights and Diagnostics (via built in Admin Console)
• Pluggable Web Resources (via JSR-311 and Jersey)
• Cloud Ready

Easiest way to get started with karyon is to see the examples provided with karyon under karyon-examples module. [This] (https://github.com/Netflix/karyon/tree/master/karyon-examples/hello-netflix-oss) is a simple "hello world" application built using karyon.

Please see [wiki] (https://github.com/Netflix/karyon/wiki) for detailed documentation.

We have a discussion group for karyon users (i.e. you!) here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/karyon-users