As regular readers know, I’ve been digging into Mesos quite a bit these days and, for the most part, enjoying the entire ecosystem that has grown up around it. There are some very cool possibilities when organizing servers into one massive platform for application (or micro-service) delivery. While there is a bit of a learning […]
Understanding Mesos and Its Place in DevOps
When building a house, work is done in teams. This work is managed by a foreman, supervisor, or general contractor, but let’s restrict ourselves to the teams doing finish work, and a foreman. Foreman is old fashioned, but general contractor gets long to type over and over. Assume a large enough house to warrant a […]
Mesos Usage Survey: Big Clusters, Big Workloads
Mesosphere, purveyors of DC/OS, recently released a survey of Mesos users focused on Mesos deployment information. There were some interesting results, and a few things I wish they’d dug a little deeper on. If you’ve ever given a survey, then you know that the results inevitably spawn more questions. No doubt Mesosphere has the same […]