ApacheCon EU 2014

Distributed systems are challenging, but essential whenever running applications on more than a single server. For operators, they pose issues when dealing with machine failures and deploying to multiple machines. For application developers, it often means having to rewrite fault-tolerant features into multiple apps.

This presentation will introduce Apache Mesos and Apache Aurora, two projects that work together to simplify running and deploying distributed systems across large pools of machines by providing a substrate for distributed systems. I'll cover their essential architectures and how they enable fault-tolerance with replicated master nodes, scalability to 10,000's of machines, and resource isolation between tasks. Attendees will come away with an understanding of how these separate software abstractions (resource manager & service scheduler) work individually and together.

If you are a committer in the Apache Software Foundation, you will have come across our Infrastructure Team at many points in your life; From the initial creation of your user account at the ASF, to the daily maintenance messages flowing from it and special requests you may have had for your project(s). But what is thing thing called Infrastructure exactly, how does it work, and how is it comprised? In this talk/Q&A, we'll take you through the inner workings of Infra, how it is set up, how it works on a daily basis and what services it offers that you may or may not be aware of. If you've ever had an infra question nagging in the bowels of your mind, this is the place to ask, as the talk is split into a presentation and a question-and-answer section, where you can quench your thirst for infrastructural knowledge.