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ZooKeeper

ZooKeeper

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A program that helps many computers work together and manage settings
  • proper noun
  • /zuːˈkiːpər/
  • Specialized
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  • Apache Zookeeper was an obvious solution for distributed configuration.

Examples

  • Fabric uses Apache ZooKeeper as its central registry of container instances running.

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  • HBase runs on top of Hadoop and Zookeeper in production, but local mode takes care of that for us for experimentation.

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  • High Availability with Apache ZooKeeper and Akka Agents

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  • To start, we created a simple wrapper for ZooKeeper on top of Twitter's ZooKeeper client written in Scala.

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  • ZooKeeper, as a central registry, allows us to do some more nice things in the domain of broker topologies.

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  • With ZooKeeper as a distributed registry, battle-proven for this kind of use case, it's easy to create master-slave topologies with master election done on ZooKeeper locks.

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  • Just as clients can use the ZooKeeper registry to discover brokers, network connectors can use the same discovery protocol to connect the broker with all other brokers in the certain group.

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  • Apache ZooKeeper is an essential tool for managing distributed systems and ensuring they work together seamlessly.

  • We use ZooKeeper to coordinate configurations across various servers in our cloud environment.

  • By implementing ZooKeeper, our development team improved the reliability of service communication in our distributed architecture.

Surface Forms

ZooKeeper main
zookeeper main

Morphology

ZooKeeper = zoo + keeper (semi-transparent) = zoo + keeper

Formed from the clear words 'zoo' and 'keeper' but as a proper-name software service the actual meaning (a coordination/configuration system) is specialized and not directly inferable from the components.

Etymology

ZooKeeper comes from the parts zoo ('a place with many animals') and keeper ('someone who looks after things'). Like a real zookeeper who keeps many animals safe and organised, the software ZooKeeper keeps many servers and settings in order so they can work together.