If I could snap my fingers and wake up the following morning with any one problem at work just solved, you know what it would be?

No, not the stock price.

Without a doubt — it would be the problem of deploying our games concurrently to mobile and web. At Zynga we’ve tried just about every approach out there — written games with Adobe’s Air, used manual ports, and evaluated several proprietary solutions. They have all been valiant efforts, but have fallen short of our expectations.

I’ve worked at OMGPOP for almost 4 years now and have seen it transform from a dating company, a games company and then find its footing in mobile games. We’ve done tons of stuff, tried many different technologies and business plans.

How do you manage configuration files across a wide array of games, played by millions of users and served out of multiple data centers?

Over the years Zynga has found that the right solution to this problem varies for each unique service and product. I’d like to present one of these solutions today: Apache ZooKeeper.

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