We deploy our applications as war files in tomcat. Most of these
applications have a rest API but some also consume from topics. For the
apps running in tomcat we use spring and initialize our kafka consumer in
the @postConstruct of a spring bean so this only happens once.
The bean itself which is
We had something like this happen a few weeks ago. In our development
environment we are prototyping with 0.8. Since we're prototyping we
occasionally wipe our brokers and deploy the latest of 0.8. I never
completely verified but I think this may have happened in our case because
we renamed a topi
