Alibaba's Deployment of Apache Hadoop YARN 3.x for Large-Scale Data Infrastructure

Alibaba builds the data infrastructure with Apache Hadoop YARN since 2013, and till now it manages more than 10k nodes. In Alibaba, Hadoop YARN serves various systems such as search, advertising, and recommendation etc. It runs not just batch jobs, also streaming, machine learning, OLAP, and even online services that directly impact Alibaba’s user experience. To extend YARN’s ability to support such complex scenarios, we have done and leveraged a lot of YARN 3.x improvements. In this talk, you will find what are these improvements and how they helped to solve difficult problems in large production clusters.

This includes:
1. Highly improved performance with Capacity Scheduler’s async scheduling framework
2. Better placement decisions with node attributes, placement constraints
3. Better resource utilization with opportunistic containers
4. Introduce a load balancer to balance resource utilization
5. Generic resource types scheduling/isolation to manage new resources such as GPU and FPGA

In the presentation, we will further introduce how we build the entire ecosystem on top of YARN and how we keep evolving YARN’s ability to tackle the challenges brought by continuously increasing data and business in Alibaba.