I recently reached out to Mesosphere to better understand the value and options available to my company if we switched to Mesos (and thus Mesosphere). We currently run Kubernetes across all major cloud providers and we'd like some help.
I was startled by how dogmatic they are about their pricing model: per node, annually. Our entire business model is running dynamically scaling data pipelines for companies. We spin nodes up and down programmatically based on a pipeline's history and a dozen other factors.
I had a lot of back and forth with them and eventually their CFO and they just could not understand the concept of a "node hour" or anything of the like. Eventually, it was determined if we paid the per-node annual price for our "average" (completely different story, but they calculated this about as wrong as you could have) usage and we went our separate ways.
The product seems really cool but as someone who runs a company that easily spin up thousands of nodes in the middle of the night for (for a grand total of $40/hr on GKE...) this pricing model just seems antiquated. I imagine that all companies will be driving their usage to this practice in due time. I really hope to see the industry change.
I was startled by how dogmatic they are about their pricing model: per node, annually. Our entire business model is running dynamically scaling data pipelines for companies. We spin nodes up and down programmatically based on a pipeline's history and a dozen other factors.
I had a lot of back and forth with them and eventually their CFO and they just could not understand the concept of a "node hour" or anything of the like. Eventually, it was determined if we paid the per-node annual price for our "average" (completely different story, but they calculated this about as wrong as you could have) usage and we went our separate ways.
The product seems really cool but as someone who runs a company that easily spin up thousands of nodes in the middle of the night for (for a grand total of $40/hr on GKE...) this pricing model just seems antiquated. I imagine that all companies will be driving their usage to this practice in due time. I really hope to see the industry change.