Apache ZooKeeper with Flavio Junqueira

Apache ZooKeeper enables highly reliable distributed coordination.

Flavio Junqueira is a committer and PMC of Apache ZooKeeper, and former VP of ZooKeeper.

Questions include:

• Why is master election so important in Hadoop?
• How does a new user begin working with ZooKeeper?
• How do nodes “watch” each other?
• Should ZooKeeper be used as a message queue or notification system?
• What is ZooKeeper’s place in a data center made increasingly complicated by tools like Mesos and Docker?
• How will the interactions between managed Big Data companies change in the future?
• Why wasn’t a company built around ZooKeeper?
• What is the future of the data center?

Links:

• ZooKeeper: Distributed Process Coordination by Flavio Junqueira and Ben Reed
• Apache ZooKeeper home page
• Keep moving forward: Liveness in distributed systems by Flavio Junqueira
• Libsei: scalable error isolation for distributed systems
• Apache Kafka with Flavio on SE Radio

Jeff