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Ma Bell, Not Google, Creates The Real Open Source Borg

October 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

True to its name, Google’s famous Borg cluster controller has absorbed a lot of different ideas about how to manage server clusters and the applications that run atop them at the search engine and now cloud computing giant. …

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Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does

June 10, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …

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Google Wants Kubernetes To Rule The World

November 8, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

At some point, all of the big public cloud providers will have to eat their own dog food, as the parlance goes, and run their applications atop the cloudy version of their infrastructure that they sell to other people, not distinct and sometimes legacy systems that predate the ascent of their clouds. …

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A Decade Of Container Control At Google

March 22, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Search engine giant Google did not invent software containers for operating systems, but it has helped perfect them for the Linux operating system and brought the orchestration of billions of containers across perhaps millions of servers to something of an art form. …

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Scale And Database Pioneer Talks Hadoop Evolution

June 25, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. …

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HP Follows Hyperscale Lead With Composable Infrastructure

June 4, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The people in the systems business at Hewlett-Packard have finally caught the DevOps bug. …

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