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Knaup: Airbnb relies on just one person to run data infrastructure
“And what's really great is that they basically have one single person that runs all of this data infrastructure for this huge company.”
Knaup: Chronos distributed system requires zero network programming due to Mesos
“It's a distributed system and it never opens a single socket. There's no network programming whatsoever in Kronos because Mesos takes care of all of that.”
Knaup: Five-second jobs are highly inefficient to run in VMs compared to container isolation
“Launching very, you know, quickly launching very short jobs, like jobs that will only take five seconds to run. You can do that if you're using isolation. It's impossible, or it's not impossible, but it's very inefficient with VMs.”
Knaup: Apache Mesos automatically bin-packs applications to maximize cluster utilization
“One thing that Mesos does is it, you know, it automatically bin packs your applications onto the infrastructure that you have, so you get the highest utilization out of it.”
Knaup: Apache Spark was the first application built on Apache Mesos
“Spark, ah, there's a little known fact, Spark was actually the first, ah, application that was ever built on top of Mesos, and it was sort of the, you know, the demo app for Mesos in the beginning.”