Florian (Flo) Leibert is an entrepreneurial software engineer and business owner who also invests in Driftt and Taptalk. Currently, Florian Leibert leads Mesosphere, Inc., which he founded in 2013.

1. SOME OF THE ADVANCED
FEATURES OF CHRONOS
Florian Leibert

2. INTRODUCTION
• Florian (Flo) Leibert is an entrepreneurial software
engineer and business owner who also invests in Driftt
and Taptalk. Currently, Florian Leibert leads Mesosphere,
Inc., which he founded in 2013.
A software engineering firm, Mesosphere develops
operating system applications within the Mesos
architecture. The firm, named a 2016 Cool Vendor in
Cloud Infrastructure by Gartner, maintains offices in the
United States, Germany, and Beijing. In addition to
offering an agile, cloud-independent container
application platform, Mesosphere has developed the
applications Marathon and Chronos.

3. CHRONOS
• A replacement for Cron, Chronos provides scheduling
services and job orchestration on systems using the
Mesos kernel. A fault-tolerant program, Chronos
primarily runs schedule and dependency-based jobs.
The program also offers advanced features that allow
needs-based customization. These include the ability
to write job metrics to Cassandra, which allows
additional analysis and validations to take place. Other
features include email and Slack notification
capabilities and exporting functions that work with
Graphite and other applications.