Hi, I apologize if this question has been addressed before. We are currently evaluating kafka for our high volume data ingestion infrastructure. I would like to understand why consistent hashing was not implemented given its inherent ability to dynamically balance the load across brokers. The current scheme if I understand correctly is to compute a hash on the message key (default or user-given) modulo the number of brokers. This is bound to yield poor (broker) load distribution in the face of failure.
Thanks in advance, stan
