Finally somebody said it. Yes it is hard. Zookeeper is time tested and I don't think there is anything revolutionary to keep state less than 2n nodes. Either K

Finally somebody said it. Yes it is hard. Zookeeper is time tested and I don't think there is anything revolutionary to keep state less than 2n nodes. Either Kafka will compromise on consistency or give a solution which is as performant as Zookeeper. May be they are looking for something which is more specific to Kafka and can be done in a much easier algorithm than Zab?