The Mesos API
Mesos provides an API to allow developers to build custom frameworks that can run on top of the underlying distributed infrastructure. The detailed steps involved in developing bespoke frameworks leveraging this API and the new HTTP API will be explored in detail in Chapter 6, Mesos Frameworks.
Messages
Mesos implements an actor-style message-passing programming model to enable nonblocking communication between different Mesos components and leverages protocol buffers for the same. For example, a scheduler needs to tell the executor to utilize a certain number of resources, an executor needs to provide status updates to the scheduler regarding the tasks that are executed, and so on. Protocol buffers provide the required flexible message ...
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