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Slider allows users to deploy distributed applications across a Hadoop cluster, leveraging the YARN Resource Manager to allocate and distribute components of an application across the cluster. Key characteristics of Slider:
Wiki Markup No need to change the application code \[as long as the application follows developer guidelines\]- No need to develop a custom Application Master or other YARN code
- Slider leverages YARN facilities to manage:
- Application recovery in cases of container failure
- Resource allocation and flexing (adding/removing containers)
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