Installing kafka

Hi there, when wanting to install Kafka using the command tar -xzf kafka_2.13-3.7.1.tgz my Mac says no, produces the following error message: tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'kafka_2.13-3.7.1.tgz' Any idea how I can still install Kafka? Thanks for helping. Christian

Changing consumer group in live

Hello, Let us consider one application in a consumer group consuming events from Kafka in live. Just like any code change, I changed the consumer group name of the application to a new group. I understand my application might start reading from the beginning offset or the latest based on the setti

Re: Installing kafka

Hi Christian, Are you sure are in the same directory you downloaded the kafka_2.13-3.7.1.tgz file to? You might need to change the command to point to the right directory maybe. Best -- Josep Prat Open Source Engineering Director, Aiven josep.p...@aiven.io | +491715557497 |

Re: Kafka 20k topics metadata update taking long time

Following up to check if someone can help. And is this the right approach or should i open a Jira ticket for same. Thanks, Amit On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 9:42 AM Amit Chopra wrote: > But 20K topics is also not a realistic assumption to have. > This is our existing scale with AWS kinesis 20k shards

Re: Changing consumer group in live

In the end you create a new consumer group. That's totally fine. The old consumer group will still "exist", ie, the committed offsets for the group are still there, until they will be eventually purged by the brokers (I think the default is 7 days to keep the metadata of consumer groups, after