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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Benjamin Hindman < [email protected]> wrote: > I believe it's high time to update the our website with some new copy (what > we have presently hasn't been updated for a while), and I wanted to reach > out to you for feedback in the hopes of making some improvements before > MesosCon (and my talk!). > > While I've always felt the most apt description for Mesos was as a "kernel" > in order to emphasize the power of the primitives for building new > distributed systems, in the earliest days I tended on the conservative side > with my choice of language as I felt it was easier for folks to grasp > Mesos. > > But I feel like our project is at a level of maturity where that is less of > a concern, and my gut is that we should really embrace the kernel messaging > in order to leave folks with the right first impressions about the > technology, especially with respect to what it facilitates today and what > we hope it will facilitate tomorrow. > agreed, this is what I have seen people latch onto when they get that "ah ha" moment. > I've pasted some new copy below that I'd love feedback on. We haven't > really done much of a review process for the website in the past, but I > thought I'd share this more widely in order to get any feedback before > making any updates. > > Looking forward to seeing many of you at MesosCon this week! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Headline: > > Program against your datacenter like it’s a single pool of resources. > I think if we use the word "Program" folks might feel/take it is only a developer tool.... Maybe something like "Run software in your datacenter or in the cloud like it's a single pool of resources" > > Subhead: > > Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources > away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and > elastic distributed systems to easily be built and run effectively. maybe "elastic distributed systems " => "elastically partitioned systems" I am really trying to get the term "elastic partitioning" in somewhere and this seemed like a good place :) > > > Distributed Systems Kernel > Why not datacenter kernel or infrastructure kernel? distributed systems kernel tells me that if I am a developer with a web front end then it won't work for me. > > > Mesos is a distributed systems kernel built using the same principles as > the Linux kernel, only at a different level of abstraction. The Mesos > kernel runs on every machine and provides applications (e.g., Hadoop, > Spark, Kafka, Elastic Search) with API’s for resource management and > scheduling across entire datacenter and cloud environments. > This is good, maybe one more line at the end to "invite" non distributed systems, custom application, commercial canned out of the box to play too.... Mesos framework's have been built enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation without having to make changes to that software...or something... depends on where this blurb shows up with the other ones on the site or if it is stand alone.... I could be taking it out of context, dunno.
