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Learn Apache Mesos

By : Manuj Aggarwal
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Learn Apache Mesos

By: Manuj Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Apache Mesos is an open source cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications or frameworks. This book will help you build a strong foundation of Mesos' capabilities along with practical examples to support the concepts explained throughout the book. Learn Apache Mesos dives straight into how Mesos works. You will be introduced to the distributed system and its challenges and then learn how you can use Mesos and its framework to solve data problems. You will also gain a full understanding of Mesos' internal mechanisms and get equipped to use Mesos and develop applications. Furthermore, this book lets you explore all the steps required to create highly available clusters and build your own Mesos frameworks. You will also cover application deployment and monitoring. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to use Mesos to make full use of machines and how to simplify data center maintenance.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

What is Cassandra?

Apache Cassandra is an open source, distributed database management system. It is designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers. It provides high availability, with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple data centers, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operation for all clients. It is extremely fault-tolerant because of its built-in replication features. It is also highly performant, decentralized, and most importantly, it's extremely durable for companies that cannot afford to lose any data.

Any distributed persistent application including Cassandra can have challenges. Let's understand few of those challenges that we face: complexity of installation; data movement expense and manual processes with node failures; performance limited by direct attached...