Hi Joe, Many thanks for your response.
> Well your client would have to share the same ZooKeeper (assuming 0.8) > instances also this is not going to be fantastic over a WAN assuming your > mention/meaning of "client" is another infrastructure? > > If my thought of you having another infrastructure posting to you my > suggestion would be to front this with a REST based service and have them > post you some JSON or something and then within your interface public > facing tier then send/produce that into Kafka. > > *Does this mean that we will override the simple communication protocols being used by Kafka for communication between producer, broker and consumer. *