Weka built custom networking, IO, scheduler, and hypervisors alongside Linux
Liron Zvibel · His 1st startup failed—but his 2nd one hit $100M ARR & a $1.6B valuation. Here's what he learned.... · PMF Show · Oct 14, 2024 · at 19:51
Liron Zvibel, co-founder and CEO of Weka, explains the core technical architecture of Weka's data platform to host Pablo Srugo.
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“We actually have implemented ourselves a lot of the functionality you would get in an operating system. So we're running our own networking stack, we're running our own IO stack, we're running our own scheduler. So we can run alongside Linux, but we've actually implemented our own hardware level hypervisor that allows you to curve A portion of that server out where we run.”
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