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This PR is a checkpoint which effectively replaces the old configuration mechanism used with GuicyFig. It removes a significant amount of code in the process and prepares us for being able to run our unit tests as stress tests in the Judo Chop environment.

There are 3 issues: I need feedback and some assistance figuring out what's going on with 3 tests that I ignored. Perhaps I can send that over in a separate PR. I just would like this check pointed now to prevent some of slippage we've been dealing with between the apache repo and what not.

Thanks,
Alex