That's an experiment for a future release. The consumer logic in 0.8 is more or less the same as 0.7, ie, running in a decentralized way.
Thanks, Jun On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:10 AM, gj1989lh <gj198...@163.com> wrote: > Hi, > How is the consumer rebalancing works? > In the design part of the official document, it says each consumer decides > which partitions it should own. But in below document > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Central+Consumer+Coordination > It says there will be a centralized consumer coordinator. > I want to ask about, whether the centralized consumer coordinator is in > the Kafka 0.8 code or not? > > > Many thanks and best regards! >