Re:KIP-500: Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Q...
by binarymax on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:36PM
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My thoughts exactly. I don't work with Kafka, but I do heavy work with Solr that also has ZK as a dependency.
To end users of whatever platform it is keeping together, Zookeeper is often seen as an unwanted dependency. The unwanted sentiment arises because maintaining zookeeper is not a gimme, and it takes additional knowledge and overhead to maintain. You need a quorum to be kept alive with an odd number (greater than one) of instances. So the question often arises, "how can we get rid of zookeeper?".
To end users of whatever platform it is keeping together, Zookeeper is often seen as an unwanted dependency. The unwanted sentiment arises because maintaining zookeeper is not a gimme, and it takes additional knowledge and overhead to maintain. You need a quorum to be kept alive with an odd number (greater than one) of instances. So the question often arises, "how can we get rid of zookeeper?".