Autopilot: Workload Autoscaling at Google

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3342195.3387524?download=true

by aratno • 6 years ago

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rantwasp3• 6 years ago

terrible name. Microsoft has had something called Autopilot for a decade now. see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/autopil...

This leads me to believe that, given it’s roughly in the same space, either this team is not aware of things that a major competitors are doing in the space or they know and just don’t care.

valleyjo• 6 years ago

Autopilot is still used today by first party Microsoft teams. Even some azure teams are using AP now.

rantwasp3• 6 years ago

yes. last I heard it's alive and kicking.

kccqzy• 6 years ago

Have you considered the possibility that internally Google's Autopilot was available even before Microsoft's paper?

rantwasp3• 6 years ago

It's possible but I highly doubt it. We're talking 10+ years (2007) since Microsoft made it public via the research paper.

summerlight• 6 years ago

I just skimmed the abstract and had an impression that this looks more similar to Borg, rather than Google's autopilot which solves a very particular problem of machine resource utilization within Borg. And yes, Borg has been there more than 15 years.

ofrzeta• 6 years ago

Joyent (SmartOS/Triton) has promoted something like this they called the "Autopilot pattern". However it's more comprehensive than scaling because it also includes other operations like startup and recovery (similar to Kubernetes operators but not for Kubernetes).

http://autopilotpattern.io/ https://www.joyent.com/blog/dbaas-simplicity-no-lock-in

Autopilot: Workload Autoscaling at Google

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