Sometimes, less is more. One case where that’s certainly true is dependencies. And so it shouldn’t come at a surprise that the Apache Kafka community is eagerly awaiting the removal of the dependency to the ZooKeeper service, which currently is used for storing Kafka metadata (e.g. about topics and partitions) as well as for the purposes of leader election in the cluster. The Kafka improvement proposal KIP-500 ("Replace ZooKeeper with a Self-Managed Metadata Quorum") promises to make life...
