[acdha]

> this demonstrates a lack of diligence or experience in applying the appropriate safety mechanisms to construct a properly functioning component of a distributed system

That's every experience I've had with ZooKeeper – gratuitous complexity, complicated setup and deployment and too many failure modes where it silently stops working without logging anything helpful. For a system like this simplicity is a necessity, not a quaint affection.

[wtbob]

> gratuitous complexity, complicated setup and deployment and too many failure modes where it silently stops working without logging anything helpful

Well, it is a Java program…