Hi Felix, Would you mind elaborating on what you said regarding the ordering guaranteed; inlined below.
Thanks, stan On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Felix GV <fe...@mate1inc.com> wrote: > > For example if you partitioned using a User ID field within the messages, > you would be > guaranteed that all messages pertaining to a certain user would end up in > the same partition, and that they would be correctly ordered. You should be > aware, however, that this guarantee is only maintained as long as there are > no consumer re-balance (which happens when adding or removing a consumer or > a broker). > Why would consumer re-balance or broker failure alter the above partition invariant?
