How We Built a Chargeback System for Twitter’s Compute Platform (Mesos/Aurora)

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Twitter’s compute platform manages thousands of containers across thousands of hosts. But they had no way of knowing if containers were sized properly and using hardware efficiently, couldn’t tell who owned which containers and services, and couldn’t track resource use by container. Micheal Benedict and Jeyappragash Jeyakeerthi (JJ for short) built their Chargeback system on Mesos to answer these questions.