[shahbazac]

I tried to use mesos to setup a test spark cluster. I figured I would install mesos, then use it to deploy spark, cassandra, etc. In practice using mesos turned out to be a major pain. Several blogs online made it seem trivial; however, I kept finding out that much of what I thought was mesos was actually a commercial product from mesosphere.

We ended up abandoning mesos just to get our prototype going.