Question of taste I suppose. In this case, I needed a simple way to manage a lot of dynamic processes. Normally you have process supervisors which are tuned to run your MySQL, MongoDB or whatever. That is, you would create one profile, often a file or a collection of file per process. With diprocd a given process is just a dictionary in a JSON file which allow ease of management of 100's of processes which change on a regular basis (each push on the PaaS creates a new series of processes on the nodes).