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Posts Tagged ‘ZooKeeper’

How to Integrate Custom Zookeeper with Kafka Cluster

The zookeeper is a popular configuration management and coordination centralized service supported by Apache. It manages the metadata based on a tree-like, hierarchical structure which make it respond quickly and integrally even in a huge distributed system like Kafka. It is required for Kafka by default, but most enterprises will have their own Zookeeper system. […]

A little stuffed animal called Hadoop

Doug Cutting – Hadoop creator – is reported to have explained how the name for his Big Data technology came about: “The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere: those are my naming criteria.” The term, of course, evolved over time and […]