Apache: Big Data 2016

Apache REEF (Sergiy Matusevych, Microsoft) - Resource managers like Apache YARN and Mesos have emerged as a critical layer in the cloud computing system stack, but the developer abstractions for leasing cluster resources and instantiating application logic are very low-level. We present Apache REEF, a powerful yet simple framework that helps developers of big data systems to retain fine-grained control over the cloud resources and address common problems of fault-tolerance, task scheduling and coordination, caching, interprocess communication, and bulk-data transfers. We will guide the developers through a simple REEF application and discuss current state of Apache REEF project and its place in the Hadoop ecosystem.