Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:34 PM
To: users@kafka.apache.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers
>> So my question is if we go with a hardware load balancer, do all the
broker nodes have to treated equally? Ie: All broker
using a hardware load
> balancer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xuyen
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:43 PM
> To: users@kafka.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs
ages to using a hardware load balancer?
Thanks,
Xuyen
-Original Message-
From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:43 PM
To: users@kafka.apache.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers
Take a look at the "Pro
you help me
> understand how you guys do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xuyen
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:39 PM
> To: users@kafka.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbala
. Can you help me understand how you
guys do this?
Thanks,
Xuyen
-Original Message-
From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:39 PM
To: users@kafka.apache.org
Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers
Kafka 08 doesn&
Kafka 08 doesn't use zookeeper based load balancing on the producer side.
We rely on a hardware load balancer to be able to talk to any broker and
get metadata about the cluster. This happens on startup, for new
topics/partitions and if the producer runs into an error while sending data.
Thanks,
N
Can anyone from LinkedIn let me know if they are using Hardware Loadbalancer to
distribute the producer messages or if they're using zookeeper?
I'm trying to find out what the pros and cons are of using a hardware
loadbalancer vs. using zookeeper to distribute the load of producers sending
messa
