I figured I would retouch this thread given that Jie will be adding a blog soon, I think the timing would be right for the website also.
Cheers, Tim ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Benjamin Hindman" <[email protected]> > To: "dev" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 10:47:54 AM > Subject: updating website copy > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > Distributed Systems Kernel > > > 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. > -- Cheers, Timothy St. Clair Red Hat Inc.
