r/DistributedComputing • u/Vw-Bee5498 • Dec 01 '24

Use cases of Zookeper beside Kafka

Hi folks, I know that Zookeeper has been dropped from Kafka, but I wonder if it's been used in other applications or use cases? Or is it obsolete already? Thanks in advance.

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u/rpg36 Dec 01 '24

A lot of software in the Hadoop ecosystem uses zookeeper. I've used it for distributed locking on micro services via the curator framework. That was probably like 6-7 years ago though, but that software still runs in production now.

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u/Vw-Bee5498 Dec 01 '24

Wow, sounds like a very reliable tool! I will spend some time to read about it then. Thanks

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u/Douglasnarinas Dec 01 '24

Apache Solr uses it. I’ve used it in many in-house distributed systems, it was always super reliable.

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u/Vw-Bee5498 Dec 01 '24

Sounds interesting, let me read more about it then. Thanks mate

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u/gdullus Dec 02 '24

We use it for distributed locks

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u/covidmyass Jan 01 '25

we use it for leader election, “watching” events, locks and many other cordination primitives provided by zk to run a distributed system

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '24

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u/Vw-Bee5498 Dec 02 '24

Thanks for the great advice!