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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hindman: Server virtualization carries a 30% performance overhead
“You don't have to start paying that 30% virtualization overhead for running your applications, which can start to save a lot of money.”
Benjamin Heinemann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:02 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Insight
Hindman: Non-standardized infrastructure degrades enterprise security auditing capabilities
“Oftentimes you have worse security because, you know, rather than a security team being able to audit just the one way in which everything gets to run, they have to audit a whole bunch of different processes.”
Benjamin Heinemann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:46 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Insight
Hindman: Organization-tailored distributed systems prevent software portability across companies
“Because people are building distributed systems in such a personalized way and a personalized for their organization or their company, you can't easily build a distributed system in one organization and move it to another organization.”
Benjamin Heinemann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:00 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hindman: Programmatic datacenter scheduling will outperform manual human tuning
“There will probably be a lot of people who believe that they can do it better, but time's going to show that actually we can start to do far more sophisticated things. And we will be able to do far better scheduling for utilization, for meeting SLAs, for servi…”
Benjamin Heinemann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:46 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Assertion Supported
Hindman: Apache Mesos functions as a bare kernel requiring higher-level orchestration
“If you download Mesos by itself today, there's not really much you can do with it. Just like if you're downloading the Linux kernel by itself today, right?”
Benjamin Heinemann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:18 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Assertion Supported
Hindman: Twitter, Airbnb, Netflix, and PayPal run on Mesos
“The open source components that, that make up a large part of the DCOS are used by a large number of companies today. Some of the biggest users out there are companies like Twitter Airbnb, HubSpot, eBay, and PayPal are using it for running things. Netflix is u…”
Benjamin Heinemann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:57 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hindman: Most organizations handle datacenter maintenance manually rather than via software
“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.”
Benjamin Heinemann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:24 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
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