Re: Kafka Producers and Virtual Kafka Endpoint

2015-01-21 Thread Joe Stein
<< My goal is to be able to hide the underlying hosts from the producer and be able to use a virtual endpoint (like the vip). That is a typical approach and good to be done if you can for the reasons you brought up. The first call of a producer is to "bootstrap" itself with the list of kafka broke

Kafka Producers and Virtual Kafka Endpoint

2015-01-21 Thread Sekhar2, Sinu
Hello Kafka Users I am new to Kafka and am evaluating it for using it for our high throughput messaging needs. I tested my producers using two different approaches. (a) metadata.broker.list=kafka1:9092,kafka2:9092,kafka3:9092 And (b) metadata.broker.list=vip:9092 Where vip is an ELB (elastic loa