[kccqzy]

Have you considered the possibility that internally Google's Autopilot was available even before Microsoft's paper?

[rantwasp]

It's possible but I highly doubt it. We're talking 10+ years (2007) since Microsoft made it public via the research paper.

[skj]

Autopilot is the name of the vertical scaling system inside Google used for borg. It's been there as long as I have, which is 2012.

I imagine the team that named it didn't need to read a research paper from MSFT to understand the benefits of dynamically scaling machine resources to match load.