I've really grown to dislike ZooKeeper. While incredibly useful, it's pretty awful. It's nearly impossible to secure in any non-trivial setup. And it's inane re

I've really grown to dislike ZooKeeper. While incredibly useful, it's pretty awful. It's nearly impossible to secure in any non-trivial setup. And it's inane requirement to reserve a physical disk [1] for its transaction log is almost impossible to fulfil with virtualized hardware. [1] From the manual: > ZooKeeper's transaction log must be on a dedicated device.