RE: Competing customers

2015-09-03 Thread Joris Peeters
ssage- From: Gwen Shapira [mailto:g...@confluent.io] Sent: 03 September 2015 17:58 To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Re: Competing customers Yeah, scaling through adding partitions ("sharding") is a basic feature of Kafka. We expect topics to have many partitions (at least as many as numbe

Re: Competing customers

2015-09-03 Thread Gwen Shapira
Yeah, scaling through adding partitions ("sharding") is a basic feature of Kafka. We expect topics to have many partitions (at least as many as number of consumers), and each consumer to get a subset of the messages by getting a subset of partitions. This design gives Kafka its two biggest advanta