Hindman: Most organizations handle datacenter maintenance manually rather than via software
Benjamin Heinemann · a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System · Jan 2, 2019 · at 29:24
Benjamin Hindman, co-creator of Apache Mesos and co-founder of Mesosphere, discusses automating scheduled datacenter maintenance with former Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky.
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“Usually the way this works in most, most organizations is a human walks up to another human and says, hey, I'm going to be taking this rack down. What can we actually do about this? Well, we can turn this into software.”
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