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Apache Hadoop 2 Is Now GA
Hortonworks announcement that Apache Hadoop 2 reached general availability in October 2013 — introducing YARN as the cluster resource manager. A landmark release that decoupled compute from MapReduce and made Hadoop a general-purpose cluster platform.
Yahoo! Spinning Continuous Computing with YARN
Yahoo's 2013 exploration of using YARN as a substrate for continuous/streaming computation beyond batch MapReduce. An early signal that the Hadoop ecosystem was trying to absorb real-time processing use cases before Apache Spark and Flink fully took over.
Hadoop 2.0 & YARN: The Big Data Breakthrough
ReadWrite's accessible overview of Hadoop 2.0 and YARN, explaining why the resource manager redesign was a bigger deal than an incremental release — it turned Hadoop from a MapReduce platform into a general-purpose cluster resource manager.
YARN: Yet Another Resource Negotiator
Apache YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) is the cluster resource management layer introduced in Hadoop 2 — the architectural change that turned Hadoop from a MapReduce system into a general-purpose distributed compute platform.
YARN: Hadoop NextGen MapReduce
YARN's official documentation from 2012 — the architecture that decoupled Hadoop cluster resource management from MapReduce. By separating resource negotiation into its own layer, YARN turned Hadoop from a MapReduce platform into a general-purpose cluster OS.