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Re:Pulsar vs. Kafka by sciurus on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:27AM (#23791239)
If you can't understand what Zookeeper is, I'd recommend reading Martin Kleppmann's book Designing Data-Intensive Applications (https://dataintensive.net/).

You don't need a CS degree to work in this field (I don't have one either!) but there are fundamental concepts you need to understand in order to make informed decisions when designing distributed systems.

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Re:Pulsar vs. Kafka by toomanybits on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:44AM (#23791942)
You don't need a CS degree or Martin Kleppmann's book to work out it's a GPITA.
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Re:Pulsar vs. Kafka by papaf on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:35AM (#23792583)
I am also not a fan of Zookeeper but I have come to respect it. In defense of Zookeeper, distributed systems are a GPITA. If you need to select some components why not go for ones that are solid [1].

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/291-jepsen-zookeeper

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