Hyperpilot
Autopilot your containers infrastructure.
Founded in 2016 by Timothy Chen and Dan Nguyen-Huu, Hyperpilot operated as a platform for AI-powered container configuration management. The San Francisco-based company developed software that utilized a machine learning approach to automate the scaling and configuration of container infrastructure. This was achieved by analyzing real-time feedback from data center infrastructure and applications, aiming to solve operational problems related to container management through artificial intelligence.
Timothy Chen, the former CEO, had a background in infrastructure projects for search engines and games and contributed to open-source projects like Apache Mesos before founding Hyperpilot. His experience navigating the challenges of fundraising and building a business informed the company's direction. Hyperpilot's mission was to introduce intelligence into infrastructure to enhance efficiency and performance for DevOps and system engineers. The company addressed the manual and often inefficient process of configuring container infrastructure, where choices about VM instance types, resource limits, and application-level settings were frequently made with limited information and resulted in over-provisioning.
The company's technology targeted clients facing challenges with container operations. In March 2018, Hyperpilot open-sourced its entire product suite, which included three main components. 'HyperConfig' provided intelligent configuration searching, using Bayesian Optimization to find near-optimal AWS instance types without exhaustive searching. 'HyperPath' focused on diagnosing resource bottlenecks such as CPU, memory, network, and I/O. The third product was a controller that managed resource allocation for workloads on Kubernetes.
On August 31, 2018, Hyperpilot was acquired by Cloudera, Inc. Following the acquisition, CEO Timothy Chen and other team members joined Cloudera. The original Hyperpilot is now considered a deadpooled company.
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