Doozer: How Heroku Handles Distributed Failures

[DanielRibeiro]

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/On-Distributed-Failures/

[enneff]

The (Go) source code for Doozer is here: https://github.com/ha/doozerd

[jrydberg]

Why didn't they just use Zookeeper?

[enneff → jrydberg]

There's some discussion of this in the notes from their release announcement: http://xph.us/2011/04/13/introducing-doozer.html

[bgentry]

FYI that's "Doozer"

[ashayh → bgentry]

Yes, the name comes from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock#Doozers

[chancho → ashayh]

What a treasure trove of open source project / startup names. Gobo, Boober, Mokey, Doozer, Gorg. One of them already ends in ly, Wembly.

[DanielRibeiro → bgentry]

Thanks. Fixxed the title

[Detrus]

They didn't discuss Go in the talk.

[mthreat → Detrus]

Here's a golang blog post about doozer: http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html

[parfe]

On Writing Titles Like This (and having to add an explanatory parenthetical)