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Little Known Apache Mesos Project Helps Mesosphere Raise $10M From Andreessen Horowitz

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 9, 2014

Mesosphere, the company trying to build a business around the little-known open source Apache Mesos project, just racked up a $10 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz. Here’s why it attracted that kind of cash.

Mesos, software for automatic scaling, was in fact built around five years ago and is already in use on more than 50,000 cores at Twitter, according to Florian Leibert, CEO and co-founder of Mesosphere. EBay, AirBnB, Netflix and HubSpot are also fans.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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