Mesos was exciting when it came out - the ideas weren't new, but it offered a level of polish and cohesion for those ideas that wasn't readily available beforeh

Mesos was exciting when it came out - the ideas weren't new, but it offered a level of polish and cohesion for those ideas that wasn't readily available beforehand. I'm glad it existed, and glad I got to implement a few projects using it. But, I'm not surprised. K8s is easier to work with if you're a startup and really working from a greenfield perspective, and most enterprises still have a lot "Pet" style servers around. It seems like they never found the great fit they would need to survive in the face of stiff competition and a quickly evolving marketplace. I wish them the best of luck with this shift and anything else they might pursue in the future. Focusing where they did at that point in time was a gamble, and the type of gamble that pushes innovation in tech forward.