This book is intended for developers and operators who want to build and run scalable and fault-tolerant applications leveraging Apache Mesos. A basic knowledge of programming with some fundamentals of Linux is a prerequisite.
Dharmesh Kakadia is a research fellow at Microsoft Research, who develops the next-generation cluster management systems. Before coming to MSR, he completed his MS in research from the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, where he worked on improving scheduling in cloud and big data systems. He likes to work at the intersection of systems and data and has published research in resource management at various venues. He is passionate about open source technologies and plays an active role in various open source communities. You can learn more about him at @DharmeshKakadia on Twitter.