This document discusses running Spark and MapReduce together in production environments and some of the challenges that arise. It addresses issues like resource conflicts that can occur when running interactive frameworks like Spark alongside batch frameworks like MapReduce. Specific solutions discussed include increasing container sizes, reserving nodes for interactive workloads, and using features like node labels and gang scheduling to avoid fragmentation. Ongoing challenges of security, web serving, resource attribution, and balancing stability vs agility are also covered. The document advocates for using Hadoop as a service rather than managing it yourself to avoid spending time on cluster maintenance.