#MesosCon 2015

Twitter has used Aurora and Mesos to scale from only tens of nodes to tens of thousands. During the process of scaling up, the configuration, deployment, and operational procedures for this system have evolved and improved significantly. This talk will offer an operations perspective on the management of a Mesos+Aurora cluster, and cover many of the cluster management best practices that have evolved at Twitter from real-world production experience. It will explore methods that decrease operational overhead, as well as examples of outages and incidents to illustrate various failure domains. Furthermore, the talk will highlight current and future safeguards in Aurora and Mesos to mitigate impact from these failures in the future.