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terrible name. Microsoft has had something called Autopilot for a decade now. see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/autopilot-automatic-data
by rantwasp 7y ago
terrible name. Microsoft has had something called Autopilot for a decade now. see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/autopilot-automatic-data-center-management/ 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 7y agoAutopilot is still used today by first party Microsoft teams. Even some azure teams are using AP now.
- rantwasp 7y agoyes. last I heard it's alive and kicking.
- kccqzy 7y agoHave you considered the possibility that internally Google's Autopilot was available even before Microsoft's paper?
- rantwasp 7y agoIt's possible but I highly doubt it. We're talking 10+ years (2007) since Microsoft made it public via the research paper.
- skj 7y agoAutopilot is the name of the vertical scaling system inside Google used for borg. It's been there as long as I have, which is 2012. I imagine the team that named it didn't need to read a research paper from MSFT to understand the benefits of dynamically scaling machine resources to match load.
- summerlight 7y agoI 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.