Uber TechnologiesWhat is Peloton?
A Unified Resource Scheduler to co-schedule mixed types of workloads such as batch, stateless and stateful jobs in a single cluster for better resource utilization. Designed for web-scale companies with millions of containers and tens of thousands of nodes.
Peloton is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Elastic Resource SharingResource Overcommit and Task PreemptionOptimized for Big Data and Machine LearningHigh ScalabilityProtobuf/gRPC based APICo-scheduling Mixed Workloads
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Peloton Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Peloton?
Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
Nomad
Nomad is a cluster manager, designed for both long lived services and short lived batch processing workloads. Developers use a declarative job specification to submit work, and Nomad ensures constraints are satisfied and resource utilization is optimized by efficient task packing. Nomad supports all major operating systems and virtualized, containerized, or standalone applications.
YARN Hadoop
Its fundamental idea is to split up the functionalities of resource management and job scheduling/monitoring into separate daemons. The idea is to have a global ResourceManager (RM) and per-application ApplicationMaster (AM).
