Dell’s Crowbar plugin for Apache Hadoop wasn’t the only new Hadoop tool open sourced by a major company yesterday. Netflix released Curator, a set of libraries for working with Apache ZooKeeper.

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Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.0 was released last week and it includes a number of updates that should make it easier for admins to better corral growing Hadoop deployments. Version 3.4 includes native Windows ...

Change is coming for users of Apache Kafka, the leading distributed event-streaming platform. Apache ZooKeeper, Kafka’s metadata management tool, will soon be phased out in favor of internal ...

Kafka 3.9 ends ZooKeeper usage and introduces KRaft quorums for easier management. Tiered storage is now considered production ready. The Kafka project managed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) ...