It&#x27;s cool seeing technology developed at CERN in the spotlight. There are a lot of interesting tools developed there that can solve real problems outside CERN and academia.<p>One such technology, featured in the article, is CernVM File System that is used to distribute terabytes of scientific software to hundreds of datacenters all over the world.<p>A shameless plug:<p>Apache Mesos recently integrated it to solve container image distribution problem (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mesosphere.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;cernvmfs-mesos-containers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mesosphere.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;cernvmfs-mesos-contai...</a>).