At Microsoft, like many companies using data for competitive advantage, opportunities for insight abound and our analytics needs were scaling fast – almost out of control. We invested in Yet Another Resource Manager (YARN) to meet the demands of an exabyte-scale analytics platform and ended up creating the world’s largest YARN Cluster. In big data, how big is really big? Yarn is known to scale to
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