Paper Reading: Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg

Link: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43438

About: Borg is Google’s large cluster workload scheduling and management system, which handles Google’s most service and batch job workloads on a cluster on scale of thousands of machines. It hides users from burdens of management of cluster, and provides high-availability features that handles failures.

The now very famous and popular open-source docker orchestration tool Kubernetes, is an open source successor to Borg, and keeps borrowing ideas from Borg (see kubernetes).

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