https://github.com/koeninger/kafka-exactly-once/blob/master/blogpost.md
The kafka consumers run in the executors. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Neelesh <neele...@gmail.com> wrote: > With receivers, it was pretty obvious which code ran where - each receiver > occupied a core and ran on the workers. However, with the new kafka direct > input streams, its hard for me to understand where the code that's reading > from kafka brokers runs. Does it run on the driver (I hope not), or does it > run on workers? > > Any help appreciated > thanks! > -neelesh >