1. A system, comprising: a plurality of servers; a data store comprising a persistent store of configuration information for the plurality of servers, wherein the persistent store is formatted in accordance with a data storage format; wherein one of the plurality of servers comprises a generation mechanism configured to: generate on the server an in-memory representation of the configuration information from meta-information describing the configuration information, wherein the in-memory representation of the configuration information is formatted in accordance with an in-memory data format; and generate on the server a plurality of components from the meta-information describing the configuration information, wherein the plurality of components are configured to access the in-memory representation of the configuration information to perform server configuration tasks.