What is Apache Twill?
Apache Twill is an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN that reduces the complexity of developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus instead on their application logic. Apache Twill allows you to use YARN’s distributed capabilities with a programming model that is similar to running threads.
Why do I need Apache Twill?
Apache Twill dramatically simplifies and reduces development efforts, enabling you to quickly and easily both develop and manage distributed applications through its simple abstraction layer on top of YARN. YARN, although originally designed for MapReduce v2, can be used as a generic cluster resource management framework that can run almost any type of application on a Hadoop® cluster. However, with its powerful capabilities, YARN can introduce complexities for developers.
In contrast, Twill’s abstraction model over YARN closely resembles the Java thread model, with which many developers are familiar. Moreover, Twill provides application lifecycle management, service discovery, distributed process coordination, and resiliency to failure, which are required by many distributed applications.
Apache Twill allows you to develop, deploy, and manage your distributed applications with a simpler programming model, with rich built-in features for solving common distributed-application problems. Whether you are a developer or an operating engineer, you will find Apache Twill helps you greatly reduce the effort in developing and operating your applications on a Hadoop® cluster.
Latest Release
The latest release of Apache Twill is 0.9.0. Please go to the release page for additional information.
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