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Mastering Apache Storm
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Mastering Apache Storm

by Ankit Jain
August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
284 pages
6h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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The ZooKeeper cluster

In any distributed application, various processes need to coordinate with each other and share some configuration information. ZooKeeper is an application that provides all these services in a reliable manner. As a distributed application, Storm also uses a ZooKeeper cluster to coordinate various processes. All of the states associated with the cluster and the various tasks submitted to Storm are stored in ZooKeeper. Nimbus and supervisor nodes do not communicate directly with each other, but through ZooKeeper. As all data is stored in ZooKeeper, both Nimbus and the supervisor daemons can be killed abruptly without adversely affecting the cluster.

The following is an architecture diagram of a Storm cluster:

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