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ZooKeeper - Kafka Tutorial

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ZooKeeper

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Hi, this is Stephane from conduktor and in this lecture, we're going to learn about Zookeeper. So Zookeeper has been how Kafka was able to function all the way up until today, but it's slowly disappearing and is going to be replaced. So you may hear a Zookeeper a lot in the Kafka community today, and I will explain you everything you need to know in this lecture and the next. So first, let's look at Kafka with Zookeeper. So Zookeeper are managing Kafka brokers, and Zookeeper is a software. And Zookeeper is going to keep a list of your Kafka brokers. Zookeeper is also going to be very helpful for Kafka because whenever we have a broker going down, we need to perform a leader election to choose new leader for partitions, and Zookeeper is going to help with this process. Also, Zookeeper is going to send notifications to Kafka brokers in case of changes. For example, when a new topic is created, when the Kafka broker goes down or comes up, deletion of topics and so on. So Zookeeper has a…

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