> I'm not an expert but I don't think there is a magic bullet here, leader > election has to happen in this circumstance and that takes time. > > You may be better served by building better resilience to eliminate > ZooKeeper's uptime from being a single point of failure in your services > layer. Pinterest and Airbnb both have some prior art here, > http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/77933733851/zookeeper-resilience-at-pinterest > and http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/ Absolutely. Your availability shouldn't be tied to zookeeper's.
-Ivan
