Also, are the consumer offsets store in Kafka or Zookeeper? On Aug 29, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) Should a producer be aware of which broker to write to or is this somehow > managed by Kafka itself. For example, If I have 2 brokers with a configured > partition size of 1 will my messages be written in a round-robin type of > fashion to each broker or is this completed dependent on which broker the > consume connects to? > > 2) Similar question goes for a writing to a topic that has multiple > partitions. Are the writes randomly load-balanced between partitions or is > this something the client needs to do? > > 3) If I have 1 topic with 1 partition and 2 brokers how does consuming > messages work. For example, if my consumer connects to broker 1 how does it > consume messages written to broker 2? > > Thanks >
