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        Program against your datacenter<br>
        like it’s a single pool of resources
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        Apache Mesos abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other
        compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling
        fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be built
        and run effectively.
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      <h3>What is Mesos? A distributed systems kernel</h3>
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        Mesos is built using the same principles as the Linux kernel, only
        at a different level of abstraction. The Mesos<br>kernel runs on
        every machine and provides applications (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka,
        Elasticsearch) with API’s for<br>resource management and scheduling
        across entire datacenter and cloud environments.
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        <h4>Linear scalability</h4>
        <p >Industry proven to easily scale to 10,000s of nodes.</p>
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        <h4>High availability</h4>
        <p>Fault-tolerant replicated master and agents using Zookeeper.
           Non-disruptive upgrades.</p>
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        <h4>Containers</h4>
        <p>Native support for launching containers with Docker and
           AppC images.</p>
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        <h4>Pluggable isolation</h4>
        <p>First class isolation support for CPU, memory, disk, ports, GPU,
           and modules for custom resource isolation.</p>
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        <h4>Two level scheduling</h4>
        <p>Support for running cloud native and legacy applications
           in the same cluster with pluggable scheduling policies.</p>
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        <h4>APIs</h4>
        <p>HTTP APIs for developing new distributed applications,
           for operating the cluster, and for monitoring.</p>
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        <h4>Web UI</h4>
        <p>Built-in Web UI for viewing cluster state and navigating
           container sandboxes.</p>
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        <h4>Cross Platform</h4>
        <p>Runs on Linux, OSX and Windows. Cloud provider agnostic.</p>
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