Yih Feng Low created KAFKA-4941: ----------------------------------- Summary: Better definition/introduction to the term brokers Key: KAFKA-4941 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4941 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Components: documentation Reporter: Yih Feng Low Priority: Trivial
Hi, I just wanted to point out that in the documentation at https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/, there are over 500 references to the word "broker". However, the idea of what a broker is not clear. The first mention of a Kafka broker comes from the sentence: ??Alternatively, instead of manually creating topics you can also configure your brokers to auto-create topics when a non-existent topic is published to.?? Perhaps there could be a better discussion of what a broker is, similar to the discussions on what a consumer/producer/partition etc. is? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)