Doozer: How Heroku Handles Distributed Failures(infoq.com)
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Doozer: How Heroku Handles Distributed Failures
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The (Go) source code for Doozer is here: https://github.com/ha/doozerd
Why didn't they just use Zookeeper?
There's some discussion of this in the notes from their release announcement: http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html
FYI that's "Doozer"
Yes, the name comes from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock#Doozers
What a treasure trove of open source project / startup names. Gobo, Boober, Mokey, Doozer, Gorg. One of them already ends in ly, Wembly.
Thanks. Fixxed the title
They didn't discuss Go in the talk.
Here's a golang blog post about doozer: http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html
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