Big Data, Java

ZooKeeper Leader-Election simplified

Background Recently (in a project) we were required to determine the master node from a pool of similar type of nodes. And if master node fails, any other node should take on the responsibility - so that the service remains available. So, the use-case was something like - Only single node should behave as a master node and it will...

by Salil
Tag: Apache Curator
28-Oct-2015

Big Data, Java

Curator Framework for Apache ZooKeeper

Objective My purpose to write this blog post is just to briefly introduce you to Apache Curator framework, esp. in case you have been using Apache ZooKeeper Java API but never tried Curator framework. In such case, I strongly recommend you to try Curator. Difficulties while using ZooKeeper API Handling the client/server...

by Salil
Tag: Apache Curator
27-Oct-2015