Adam, this is awesome! I've retweeted it on my twitter account:
http://twitter.com/phunt/status/7637054275
A few comments:
1) you are correct about the off the shelf part, but really alot of
that is our marketing blurb, we paint with a broad stroke. I think it
would make sense to include this
Thanks Patrick.
Re off the shelf, my title of Actually Implementing was a *bit*
snarky to try and gain some readers, but it wasn't intended to be
sharp criticism; more documented recipes is a good thing for everyone.
I'd be happy to submit a JIRA with a group membership recipe.
Re zkclient, I
Yes, your Disqus comment went through. We filed a ticket with them
about some javascript issues that messed up the UI.
Data wrappers would certainly work but I feel like it's still a
black-hole to fall into that something like node-metadata (to do
something like HTTP's Content-Type) would help
I've written a blog post about using ZooKeeper for group membership at KaChing:
http://bit.ly/6yraP6
http://eng.kaching.com/2010/01/actually-implementing-group-management.html
Any comments or feedback is welcome.
.. Adam
