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Good afternoon, everybody.

This is Steven Sinovsky here with the A16Z podcast.

Very excited today to have Benjamin Heinemann of Mesosphere here today.

And we're going to talk about a new concept that the company is coming out with called

the Data Center Operating System, or DCOS.

You know, today, you know, apps, they span servers.

There are things like Kafka and Spark and MapReduce and Cassandra, and it's super, super

complex to roll out these huge systems.

In fact, the real challenge of just allocating resources and figuring things out

reminds me, personally,

of the very early days of computing when programmers were responsible for allocating the

resources of a machine.

You know, if you wanted a file, you sort of wrote your own file system.

If you wanted a process, you had to figure out which part of the CPU to save and store

and load. And, you know, great programmers which part of the CPU to save and store and load.

And, you know, great programmers back in those days, which really weren't as long ago as

people seemed to think, knew how to squeeze the most out of a computer by being able to

manually allocate resources.

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