'This book is a critically needed resource for the newly released Apache Hadoop 2.0, highlighting YARN as the significant breakthrough that broadens Hadoop beyond the MapReduce paradigm.' -From the Foreword by Raymie Stata, CEO of Altiscale The Insider's Guide to Building Distributed, Big Data Applications with Apache Hadoop YARN Apache Hadoop is helping drive the Big Data revolution. Now, its data processing has been completely overhauled: Apache Hadoop YARN provides resource management at data center scale and easier ways to create distributed applications that process petabytes of data. And now in Apache Hadoop YARN, two Hadoop technical leaders show you how to develop new applications and adapt existing code to fully leverage these revol...