Initial Development at Yahoo!
Engineers at Yahoo! Research, including Benjamin Reed, Flavio Junqueira, and Patrick Hunt, began work on a generic coordination service to support their burgeoning distributed systems, particularly Hadoop.
Significance
This marked the birth of ZooKeeper, conceived out of the practical necessity to tame the complexities of large-scale distributed infrastructure at Yahoo!.
Key facts
- Date
- 2006-01-01
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, USA