Re: Kafka Definitive guide v2 states auto.leader.rebalance.enable = true is not recommended

Hi Liam, The property you referred to corresponds to partition leadership, not ownership from consumers. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4084 for a discussion about why post-incident leader rebalance can sometimes impact foreground traffic. Thanks, Alexandre Le lun. 12 avr. 2021

Re: Kafka Definitive guide v2 states auto.leader.rebalance.enable = true is not recommended

Ah, thanks Todd :) Was it causing issues back in the day of consumer rebalances always being stop the world? I was wondering if the statement had perhaps predated the cooperative / stick assignors we're able to run now. Cheers, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 2:34 AM Todd Palin

Re: Kafka Definitive guide v2 states auto.leader.rebalance.enable = true is not recommended

As a note, that part of the second edition has not been updated yet. This setting used to cause significant problems, but more recent updates to the controller code have made the auto leader rebalancing usable. -Todd On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:20 AM Liam Clarke-Hutchinson < liam.cla...@adscale.co

Kafka Definitive guide v2 states auto.leader.rebalance.enable = true is not recommended

Hi all, This question arose elsewhere, and I'm also going to fire it off to O'Reilly in the hopes that they'll clarify, but on page 180 of the Definitive Guide v2 it state