It is historic. I think we are converging towards
worker: the "slave" daemon in the standalone cluster manager executor: the jvm process that is launched by the worker that executes tasks On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Andrew Ash <and...@andrewash.com> wrote: > The terms worker and slave seem to be used interchangeably. Are they the > same? > > Worker is used more frequently in the codebase: > > aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ git grep -i worker | wc -l > 981 > aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ git grep -i slave | wc -l > 348 > aash@aash-mbp ~/git/spark$ > > Does it make sense to unify on one or the other? >
