I haven't been as excited about anything in awhile as I am about Mesos. Program against the data center. Distributed by default. Fault tolerant everything. Lower your AWS bill.
Ah, now I see why you were pejorative about my being a Pivotal Labs employee.
I actually think Mesos is the best of the current generation orchestrators, for the same reason that Diego (Cloud Foundry's new execution system) is going to be the best foundation for PaaSes.
They both push intelligence out to the edges. Mesos pushes it to the requestor, Diego pushes it to the executor, but both represent a huge step forward over need a godlike central controller for a cloud system.
> Ah, now I see why you were pejorative about my being a Pivotal Labs employee.
Not sure I see the connection? I probably should have been nicer, you came off very shill-like though. Pivotal does kind of cultivate that attitude though, of "whatever we're working on is a disruptive, game-changing twitter-killer", but I guess it works for them since they managed to get a bunch of smart people working for early-stage companies without any stake in them and then training other people to take over their jobs.
I will have to look into this Diego, at least. Is there like, a white paper for it?
Oh, we're full of beans. And teaching client developers how we work is literally what Pivotal Labs aims to do. It's probably the first place I've worked that has a high rate of reverse-churn: people leaving to work at startups for the glamour or equity, then deciding they miss Labs and coming back.
As for Diego, start with Onsi Fakhouri's keynote at the Cloud Foundry Summit this year[1], then read Amit Gupta's blog post on app placement as an optimisation problem[2], then you might like the Diego Design Notes repo[3].
My main pet peeve with Diego is the confusing, punny names, so it will be confusing at first.
I'm not familiar with Marathon, but I will read up on it. Thanks.
I find it interesting how everyone is sprinting toward PaaSes from their own positions. For example, Docker is racing up the stack, Hashicorp and Mesosphere are growing sideways, Cloud Foundry is growing in about 5 directions at once. Red Hat is trying to reboot OpenShift with Docker and Kubernetes, but I am not sure how well that will turn out for them.
There's also a thriving cottage industry of people reinventing central controllers that won't scale in the face of the network fallacies, something that Mesos and Diego have accepted and moved on from.
