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Apache ZooKeeper is a distributed service that provides configuration information storage, naming, synchronization, coordination, and group services.

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Explaining Apache ZooKeeper

I am trying to understand ZooKeeper, how it works and what it does. Is there any application which is comparable to ZooKeeper? If you know, then how would you describe ZooKeeper to a layman? I have ...
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Data Modeling with Kafka? Topics and Partitions

One of the first things I think about when using a new service (such as a non-RDBMS data store or a message queue) is: "How should I structure my data?". I've read and watched some introductory ...
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Is Zookeeper a must for Kafka? [closed]

In Kafka, I would like to use only a single broker, single topic and a single partition having one producer and multiple consumers (each consumer getting its own copy of data from the broker). Given ...
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Distributed sequence number generation?

I've generally implemented sequence number generation using database sequences in the past. e.g. Using Postgres SERIAL type http://www.neilconway.org/docs/sequences/ I'm curious though as how to ...
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Real World Use of Zookeeper [closed]

I've been looking at Zookeeper recently and wondered whether anybody was using it currently and what they were specifically using it for storing. The most common use case is for configuration ...
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Is there a way to delete all the data from a topic or delete the topic before every run?

Is there a way to delete all the data from a topic or delete the topic before every run? Can I modify the KafkaConfig.scala file to change the logRetentionHours property? Is there a way the messages ...
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List all Kafka 0.10 topics using - -zookeeper flag without access to Zookeeper

I'm using kafka 0.10 without zookeeper. I want to get kafka topics list. This command is not working since we're not using zookeeper: bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181. How can I ...
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How to check if ZooKeeper is running or up from command prompt?

I exploring a few options to how Zookeeper is up and running I would like to know how can I find the below. hostname and port for my zookeeper instance---I checked the zoo.cfg and I could only find ...
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zookeeper is not a recognized option when executing kafka-console-consumer.sh

I'm learning how to use Kafka on this website link(except I'm using port 2182 in zookeeper), but it shows: zookeeper is not a recognized option after executing: sudo ./bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh ...
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ZooKeeper alternatives? (cluster coordination service) [closed]

ZooKeeper is a highly available coordination service for data centers. It originated in the Hadoop project. One can implement locking, fail over, leader election, group membership and other ...
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classpath is empty. please build the project first

I was trying to run Kafka on Windows machine and when I try to start the zookeeper I am facing this weird error: classpath is empty. please build the project first e.g. by running 'gradlew jarall'
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Running into LeaderNotAvailableException when using Kafka 0.8.1 with Zookeeper 3.4.6

I installed the stable version of kafka (0.8.1 with 2.9.2 Scala) as per their website and am running it with a 3 node zookeeper ensemble (3.4.6). I tried to create a test topic but keep seeing that ...
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supervisord stopping child processes

One of the problems, I face with supervisord is that when I have a command which in turn spawns another process, supervisord is not able to kill it. For example I have a java process which when runs ...
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Kafka + Zookeeper: Connection to node -1 could not be established. Broker may not be available

I am running in my locahost both Zookeeper and Kafka (1 instance each). I create succesfully a topic from kafka: ./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --create --replication-factor 1 --...
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Zookeeper & Kafka error KeeperErrorCode=NodeExists

I have written a kafka consumer and producer that worked fine until today. This morning, when I started zookeeper and kafka, my consumer was not able to read messages, and I found this in the ...
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