Kraken is the term Joy Automation uses to describe our approach to SCADA system architecture design. This approach relies entirely on open-source software components running on general-purpose hardware. By doing so, it eliminates licensing fees, software support costs, vendor lock-in, and the large, unpredictable expenses associated with planned obsolescence.

Joy Automation Software

• Mantle: MQTT Sparkplug B Data Historian & GraphQL API
• Tentacle: Modern Soft PLC programmed with TypeScript This software is comprised of the following Joy Automation libraries:
• Coral: Logging Library
• Conch: Deno CLI and GraphQL Yoga Boostrapper
• Synapse: MQTT Sparkplug B Host/Node Libraries

Other Open Source Software

• Virtualization platforms: Kubernetes/Docker/Incus
• MQTT Broker: Bring Your Own (BYO), but we prefer EMQX
• PostgreSQL (Though we’re considering adding support for other databases)
• Modern Web Frontend Framework: BYO, but we prefer Sveltekit
• Open source IDEs: BYO, but we prefer Windsurf (an agentic AI fork of VSCode)
• Valkey: An open source fork of Redis (used for persistent memory sharing and high availability)