If you are running multiple datacenters, intend to have a lot of writes for counters, I highly advise against it. We got rid of ZK because of that.
-Chris On May 16, 2010, at 7:04 PM, S Ahmed wrote: > Can someone quickly go over how you go about using zookeeper if you want to > store counts and have those counts be accurate? > > e.g. in digg's case I believe, they are using zookeeper so they can keep > track of digg's for a particular digg story. > > Is it a backend change only and then storing API calls are uneffected? is it > a config issue ? > > What are the ramifications of using this addon, are writes slower because you > have to wait for the write to propogate to all the servers?
