I think I found my answer reading the 0.8.2 release notes about the changes
to consumer groups; basically they are triples (group, topic, partition)
for the key. That's all I needed to know.
Thanks!
(but got a different follow up question coming!)
On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 9:34:29 AM Todd Palino wr
I'm assuming from your description here that all of these topics are being
consumed by a single consumer (i.e. a single process that does something
different with each topic it sees). In general, you're going to get more
efficiency out of a single consumer instance that consumes multiple topics
tha
We have several dozen topics, each with only one topic (replication factor
or 2).
We are wanting to launch console-consumer for these in a manner that will
support saving offsets (so they can resume where they left off if they need
to be restarted). And I know consumer groups is the mechanism for
