Chapter 2. Managing datacenter resources with Mesos
This chapter covers
- Introducing Mesos with a real-world example
- Comparing standalone and general-purpose clusters
- Launching a Spark job on a Mesos cluster
- Exploring a framework’s interaction with Mesos
The previous chapter introduced the Apache Mesos project, how it works, and how it compares to the architecture of a traditional datacenter. This chapter explores the benefits of Mesos by applying a real-world scenario: demonstrating multiple applications using Mesos cluster resources. The chapter demonstrates Apache Spark, a popular data-processing framework.
If you’re not familiar with Spark, don’t worry: the following sections use Spark as a demonstration of how Mesos distributes workloads ...
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