Understand the application of apache zookeeper in a distributed environment. Use-case: Keeping metadata, config files in sync in a large geographically distributed environment

Outline

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. Will discuss the typical use-cases and some real-life applications which are using ZooKeeper. A small demo to end the talk.

Requirements

Basic understanding of challenges in distributed systems will help.

Speaker bio

Developer at Adiquity.com, Global Mobile Optimization Platform.
Built a service using Apache ZooKeeper and CuratorFramework to coordinate across data centers.

Links

• Apache ZooKeeper home: http://zookeeper.apache.org
• Curator Framework wiki: https://github.com/Netflix/curator/wiki/Framework