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     3  page_title: "Nomad vs. Custom Solutions"
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     6    Comparison between Nomad and writing a custom solution.
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     8  
     9  # Nomad vs. Custom Solutions
    10  
    11  It is an undisputed fact that distributed systems are hard; building
    12  one is error-prone and time-consuming. As a result, few organizations
    13  build a scheduler due to the inherent challenges. However,
    14  most organizations must develop a means of deploying applications
    15  and typically this evolves into an ad hoc deployment platform.
    16  
    17  These deployment platforms are typically special cased to the needs
    18  of the organization at the time of development, reduce future agility,
    19  and require time and resources to build and maintain.
    20  
    21  Nomad provides a high-level job specification to easily deploy applications.
    22  It has been designed to work at large scale, with multi-datacenter and
    23  multi-region support built in. Nomad also has extensible drivers giving it
    24  flexibility in the workloads it supports, including Docker.
    25  
    26  Nomad provides organizations of any size a solution for deployment
    27  that is simple, robust, and scalable. It reduces the time and effort spent
    28  re-inventing the wheel and users can focus instead on their business applications.
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