17 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache ZooKeeper first-hand: 6 endorse it, 4 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“the biggest problem was that dependencies like Zookeeper weren't compatible with our testing approach, so we couldn't do true end to end tests”
regret · production · voidmain · 2024-02-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ZooKeeper indeed was one of those pain points, but once you get it stable there is practically no need to touch it.”
mixed · production · vulkoingim · 2021-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run over 900 very stateful MySQL database clusters and several hundred zookeeper clusters in kubernetes on ec2 with ebs successfully.”
endorse · production · paulfurtado · 2020-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our cluster of > 15 Kafka nodes and 3 node zk ensemble has had no major issues in over 4 years in production.”
endorse · production · 4 yr · neeleshs · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“etcd/zk/consul is battle tested and did work even that we have way more network partitions than your typical network”
endorse · production · merb · 2017-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For us, it has to be one of the most stable pieces of 3rd party server software we run.”
endorse · production · gshx · 2016-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the majority of operational issues that we run into with Druid is around zookeeper integration, losing an entire ZK cluster is painful”
regret · production · cheddar · 2015-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We would get increased latency interacting with Zookeeper over time until eventually it would completely fail.”
regret · production · carlivar · 2015-02-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use ZooKeeper in production for snitch.io. ... at the time ZooKeeper had the best track record”
endorse · production · yourabi · 2014-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The ZooKeeper version we run (3.3.4...) reports the wrong version number and has a major bug in the way it does snapshots.”
regret · production · mrgordon · 2013-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It ends up being pretty nice the next time a giant storm takes out half of us-east-1 and you're frantically re-provisioning boxes”
endorse · production · KirinDave · 2012-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Loading the set of backend services from Zookeeper. (We had a sidecar process that would periodically sync from Zookeeper to a config file”
neutral · production · cakoose · 2022-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we routinely will spin up dependencies that will run a local kafka and zookeeper for them to run”
neutral · production · sethammons · 2021-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the hosts and ports were defined in zk”
neutral · production · emidln · 2020-03-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run many different types of data services, mysql/hadoop/hbase/kafka/redis/zookeeper/elasticsearch/etc”
neutral · production · paulfurtado · 2016-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For development environments we are running MSSQL, Elasticsearch, Mongo, Kafka, Zookeeper”
neutral · production · paultyng · 2016-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run Zookeeper / replicated SQL for inter-key consistent actions”
neutral · production · jolynch · 2016-06-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?