Running a multi-region Zookeeper

Zookeeper defines itself as “a centralized service for maintaining configuration information” among other things. To model data, it uses znodes which have a path as an identifier and hold a value. At Flipkart, we use zookeeper as the backend of choice for a platform which offers configuration management for multiple applications. A znode representing each configuration object stores a small JSON payload. The platform also propagates configuration changes to the interested clients and influences ...

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