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Re:Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messa... by matteomerli on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:26AM (#21936727)
> is pulsar going to take the same road ?

Yes, it's in the works

Re:Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messa... by FBISurveillance on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:49AM (#21936959)
Related Kafka KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500%3A...

It doesn't look like it's going to be ready anytime soon though.

Re:Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messa... by wilhow on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:37PM (#21940136)
Just to confirm, Pulsar has on it's roadmap to remove it's dependency on Zookeeper. Is that correct?
Re:Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messa... by matteomerli on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:11PM (#21940494)
That's correct, we're moving to have a pluggable metadata store and coordination service.
Re:Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messa... by senderista on Thursday January 02, 2020 @07:56PM (#21941849)
Note that this is a different goal from the KIP referenced above, which is to entirely remove any dependency on an external configuration service. The idea of “pluggable consensus” is explicitly rejected in this KIP.