Mesos in Action

Foreword

If you ever want to see a man’s head explode, walk up to somebody whose job it is to manually configure and provision scores of servers inside a datacenter, and say the following: “Wow! It must be so easy, and so much fun, to keep track of what’s running on which machines.”

Or find a person who has spent years carrying a pager and responding to server outages and say, “Sounds like a stress-free job. At least it guarantees you get a good night’s sleep.”

The truth, of course, is that managing servers and other datacenter infrastructure has historically been difficult, tedious, and full of sleepless nights for the poor men and women charged with configuring all these machines and responding to failures whenever they strike. As companies ...