Coordination Service
Understand the importance of coordination in distributed systems and learn how services like Zookeeper provide coordination as an API to handle complex interactions. This lesson covers the design and role of Zookeeper, compares it with systems like Chubby and etcd, and highlights how they support reliable distributed service operation.
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It must have become evident by now that coordination is a central aspect of distributed systems.
Even though each component of a distributed system might function correctly in isolation, one needs to ensure that they will also function correctly when operating simultaneously. This can be achieved through some form of coordination between these components.
Coordination as an API
As illustrated in the chapter about ...