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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 07:21:56 +0900
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Apache REEF is ...
From: John Yang <johnyangk@gmail.com>
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Hi Markus,

I like Option E. It's better to use as few words as possible and emphasize
its role as a standard library.

Thanks,
John
On Apr 1, 2016 6:58 AM, "Markus Weimer" <markus@weimo.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we frequently have the need to summarize REEF in a single sentence, e.g.
> in our README.md, talk announcements, board reports etc. We have
> iterated through many ways of doing that in the past. However, I think
> it might help to drive some consensus around this.
>
> Our current README.md proclaims (Option A):
>
> Apache REEF=E2=84=A2 (Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework) is a
>> scale-out computing fabric that simplifies the development of Big
>> Data applications on top of resource managers (e.g., Apache YARN and
>> Mesos).
>>
>
> I don't think that is terribly accurate. Sergey suggested as part of
> REEF-1252 to change it to something like (Option B):
>
> Apache REEF is a standard library for building distributed systems
>> that simplifies the development of Big Data applications on top of
>> resource managers (e.g., Apache Hadoop YARN and Apache Mesos).
>>
>
> Our website suggests (Option C):
>
> REEF, the Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework, is our approach
>> to simplify and unify the lower layers of big data systems on modern
>> resource managers.
>>
>
>
> And the SIGMOD paper uses the following text in its abstract (Option D):
>
> This paper presents REEF, a development framework that provides a
>> control-plane for scheduling and coordinating task-level (data-plane)
>> work on cluster resources obtained from a Resource Manager.
>>
>
> Of those, I like option B the best, but would propose a slight
> simplification (Option E):
>
> Apache REEF is a standard library for building distributed
>> applications on top of cluster resource managers (e.g., Apache Hadoop
>> YARN and Apache Mesos).
>>
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Markus
>

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