xichen2020

Is this really necessary by the way? I think in most cases the expectation is that `Init` is supposed to be called once. Perhaps we should just document it to...

Re item 2, I'd prefer a consistently formed path-based key structure, e.g., `////`. This is also how keys are structured in zookeeper and resembles file paths on Linux systems. Also,...

Understood, but shouldn't that be part of the hierarchical namespace though? e.g., something like `/////...//`, so you can have `/zone1/production/kv/service1/foo` and `/zone1/production/sd/service1/foo`?

Sounds like what you want is the mirrored placement, which the new agg tier also needs. @cw9 has made good progress on that front so I'll let him chime in...