This is fantastic. Im really excited to see the work on this.
> On Oct 2, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Konstantine Karantasis <konstant...@confluent.io>
> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'd like to bring to your attention a general design document that was just
> published in Apache Kafka's wiki space:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Incremental+Cooperative+Rebalancing%3A+Support+and+Policies
>
> It deals with the subject of Rebalancing of groups in Kafka and proposes
> basic infrastructure to support improvements on the current rebalancing
> protocol as well as a set of policies that can be implemented to optimize
> rebalancing under a number of real-world scenarios.
>
> Currently, this wiki page is meant to serve as a reference to the
> proposition of Incremental Cooperative Rebalancing overall. Specific KIPs
> will follow in order to describe in more detail - using the standard KIP
> format - the basic infrastructure and the first policies that will be
> proposed for implementation in components such as Connect, the Kafka
> Consumer and Streams.
>
> Stay tuned!
> Konstantine
