Florian “Flo” Leibert leverages more than a decade of software engineering experience in his work as founder of Mesosphere. Also an investor at Driftt and Taptalk, Florian Leibert developed software applications that include Chronos and Marathon, a container orchestration platform for Mesos and Mesosphere’s Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS).

1. A LOOK AT
MEMORY
MANAGEMENT
TASKS
Florian Leibert

2. Introduction
■ Florian “Flo” Leibert leverages more than a decade of software
engineering experience in his work as founder of Mesosphere. Also
an investor at Driftt andTaptalk, Florian Leibert developed
software applications that include Chronos and Marathon, a
container orchestration platform for Mesos and Mesosphere’s
Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS).
Developed at the University of California at Berkeley, Mesos is an
open-source operating system (OS) kernel. Similar to the Linux
kernel, Mesos connects a network of autonomous computers and
operates as the management core of the OS. It is responsible for
essential tasks that range from computer startup and scheduling
to disc controls and memory management functions such as
isolation support.

3. Memory Management
■ Memory management refers to the computing process that
optimizes system performance by allocating resources to
running programs efficiently. In addition to the operating
system, memory management occurs in applications.
Application memory management includes two primary tasks:
- Allocation task: a process that assigns system resources
known as “blocks” to programs that request them.
- Recycling task: a process in which blocks that have served
their purpose are made available for reassignment.