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+**This is now archived, since the presentation was back in 2012 and the code hasn't really changed, and doesn't need to.**
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 This is code that accompanies a talk I gave on Apache ZooKeeper.
 
 The slides can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/scottleber/apache-zookeeper