Hi Li,
I think reducing the client's complexity and improving performance were two
of the main reasons for the change. The rebalance protocol on top of
Zookeeper was difficult to implement correctly, and I think a number of
Kafka clients never actually got it working. Removing it as a dependence
a
Hi guys,
As we know, the new consumer of 0.9 kafka does not need to communicate with
zookeeper.
What is the motive / rational behind this disign? I have some
guesses(correct me if i am wrong):
1. Reduce the complexity of consumer. It's hard to maintain the connections
and states of kafka servers
