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I keep thinking about Mesos and I don't get what the big deal is here. With low-overhead virtualization like linux containers combined with configuration management tools like Salstack, Ansible, Chef or Puppet, it isn't a big deal to have multiple properly configured applications running on individual physical machines. And to then distribute out workloads to those machines isn't super hard if you use distributed frameworks or job managers such as gearman, celery or something built on top of ZeroMQ. Am I missing something here?<p>You could even get all fancy by using openvswitch to configure your own virtual network topology. It just doesn't seem so complicated what they're trying to accomplish.