Re: Identifying Number of Kafka Consumers

2017-09-12 Thread Nishanth S
Thanks David!. We are not using confluent at the moment .Since the work that needs to be done by each consumer is the same (read > write to hdfs) I am guessing my consumer code will just look the same and will need just one consumer group. Thanks, Nishanth On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:53 AM, D

Re: Identifying Number of Kafka Consumers

2017-09-12 Thread David Garcia
Consumers can be split up based on partitions. So, you can tell a consumer group to listen to several topics and it will divvy up the work. Your use case sounds very canonical. I would take a look at Kafka connect (if you’re using the confluent stack). -Daivd http://docs.confluent.io/curren

Identifying Number of Kafka Consumers

2017-09-11 Thread Nishanth S
All, I am very new to kafka . We have a case where we need to ingest multiple avro record types . These avro record types vary vastly in volume and size and I am thinking of sending each of these message types to a different topic and creating partitions based on volume and through put needed.