Producers discover the broker that owns each partition and send messages directly. There isn't anything to load balance at layer 4. On Aug 29, 2013 8:54 AM, "Mark" <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you explain why not? > > On Aug 29, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: > > > The LB in front of the brokers doesn't make sense. > > On Aug 29, 2013 8:42 AM, "Mark" <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> We have a few dozen front-end web apps running rails. Each one of these > >> rails instances has an embedded producer which in turn connects to a 3 > >> brokers who are behind a load-balancer. Does that sound about right? > >> > >> Is there anything special to account for since these TCP connections are > >> long lived? > >> > >> On Aug 29, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I think a typical setup is that you have a load balancer in front of a > >>> bunch of frontend services, each of which has an embedded producer. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Jun > >>> > >>> > >>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> Is it common/necessary to load balance the connections your producers > >> use? > >>>> I'm looking at the Ruby gem and it doesn't look like this is handled > via > >>>> the gem. > >> > >> > >
