1. Apache Hadoop YARN: A Brief History and Rationale
In this chapter we provide a historical account of why and how Apache Hadoop YARN came about. YARN’s requirements emerged and evolved from the practical needs of long-existing cluster deployments of Hadoop, both small and large, and we discuss how each of these requirements ultimately shaped YARN.
YARN’s architecture addresses many of these long-standing requirements, based on experience evolving the MapReduce platform. By understanding this historical context, readers can appreciate most of the design decisions that were made with YARN. These design decisions will repeatedly appear in Chapter 4, “Functional Overview of YARN Components,” and Chapter 7, “Apache Hadoop YARN Architecture Guide ...
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