Looking closer at the mission to "encode all Netflix video", a less idealized version involves people at Netflix and outside it, who have signed contracts with deadlines and monetary incentives and everyone wants to go first, but how many are willing to put their money where their mouth is, so to speak.

It's expensive to operate thousands of instances in AWS, so I presume there's also a relentless push internally to drive down costs.

Thanks for the link to Cook, that's fascinating. The fact that it plugs into Mesos seems quite useful!

Holy Shit, two sigma, the hedge fund, developed that.(Cook)

>Cook is a powerful batch scheduler, specifically designed to provide a great user experience when there are more jobs to run than your cluster has capacity for.