Omega, and what it means for Kubernetes: a Q&A about cluster scheduling – KismaticMalte Schwarzkopf A Q&A with Malte Schwarzkopf, co-author of the Omega paper. tl;dr: Malte explains how the primary goal of Google Omega’s shared-state design was flexibility in software engineering, rather than scalability. He explains that shared-state scheduling enables useful policies, such as priority preemption and interference-aware scheduling. Prior two-level scheduler designs (e.g. in YAR
