Zookeeper is a very specialized distributed filesystem for saving and delivering important details for very large systems. Getting concurrent distributed syste

Zookeeper is a very specialized distributed filesystem for saving and delivering important details for very large systems. Getting concurrent distributed systems like this right is the equivalent of summited Mount Everest starting by walking from Paris. It was mostly developed at Yahoo and spun off as an Apache project under Hadoop and commercialized by Cloudera. Netflix uses ZK for example.