What is ZooKeeper?
ZooKeeper is an open-source distributed coordination service that helps manage large and complex distributed systems. It provides a simple, yet powerful set of primitives for building distributed applications. ZooKeeper enables developers to focus on the core logic of their applications instead of having to worry about the complexities of distributed systems. With ZooKeeper, developers can easily build reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant applications that are easy to maintain and operate.
ZooKeeper provides a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming services, synchronization services, and group services. It also helps coordinate activities between different nodes in a cluster by providing atomic broadcast primitives and leader election algorithms. This makes it easier for developers to write applications that can scale across multiple machines without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.
ZooKeeper has been used in production environments since its initial release in 2010 and has become increasingly popular due to its reliability and scalability. It is used by many organizations including LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Twitter, eBay, Apache Hadoop YARN project, Apache Storm project and many more. ZooKeeper is also available as part of the Apache Software Foundation’s Bigtop distribution.
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