This document provides an overview of Apache Tez, a framework for building data processing applications on Hadoop YARN. It describes how Tez allows applications to define complex data flows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and handles distributed execution, fault tolerance, and resource management. Tez has improved the performance of Apache Hive and Pig by an order of magnitude by enabling more flexible DAG definitions and runtime optimizations. It also supports integration with other data processing engines like Spark, Storm and interactive SQL queries. The document outlines how Tez works and provides guidance on how developers can contribute to the open source project.