Tech Note 6

Friends don't let friends write ZooKeeper recipes

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Writing ZooKeeper code is on par with the difficulty in writing concurrent language code. As we all know Concurrency is Hard! For ZooKeeper in particular, there are numerous edge case and undocumented behaviors that you must know in order to write correct recipes. In light of this, we strongly suggest you use one of the existing Curator pre-built recipes instead of writing raw ZooKeeper code yourself. At minimum, use a Curator recipe as a base for your work.