Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli discusses the evolution of Apache Hadoop YARN to support more complex applications and services on a single cluster. YARN is adding capabilities for packaging, simplified APIs, improved scheduling, and management of applications composed of multiple services. These changes will allow users to more easily deploy and manage multi-component "assemblies" on YARN without needing separate infrastructure. Hortonworks is working on enhancements to YARN, frameworks, tools, and user interfaces to simplify running diverse workloads on a unified Hadoop cluster.