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Mastering Mesos

By : Dipa Dubhashi, Akhil Das
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Mastering Mesos

By: Dipa Dubhashi, Akhil Das

Overview of this book

Apache Mesos is open source cluster management software that provides efficient resource isolations and resource sharing distributed applications or frameworks. This book will take you on a journey to enhance your knowledge from amateur to master level, showing you how to improve the efficiency, management, and development of Mesos clusters. The architecture is quite complex and this book will explore the difficulties and complexities of working with Mesos. We begin by introducing Mesos, explaining its architecture and functionality. Next, we provide a comprehensive overview of Mesos features and advanced topics such as high availability, fault tolerance, scaling, and efficiency. Furthermore, you will learn to set up multi-node Mesos clusters on private and public clouds. We will also introduce several Mesos-based scheduling and management frameworks or applications to enable the easy deployment, discovery, load balancing, and failure handling of long-running services. Next, you will find out how a Mesos cluster can be easily set up and monitored using the standard deployment and configuration management tools. This advanced guide will show you how to deploy important big data processing frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, and Storm on Mesos and big data storage frameworks such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Mesos
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Cassandra on Mesos


This section will introduce Cassandra and explain how to set up Cassandra on Mesos while also discussing the problems commonly encountered during the setup process.

Introduction to Cassandra

Cassandra is an open source, scalable NoSQL database that is fully distributed with no single point of failure and is highly performant for most standard use cases. It is both horizontally as well as vertically scalable. Horizontal scalability or scale-out solution involves adding more nodes with commodity hardware to the existing cluster while vertical scalability or scale-up solution means adding more CPU and memory resources to a node with specialized hardware.

Cassandra was developed by Facebook engineers to address the inbox search use case and was inspired by Google Bigtable, which served as the foundation for its storage model, and Amazon DynamoDB, which was the foundation of its distribution model. It was open sourced in 2008 and became an Apache top-level project in early 2010...