On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, are the consumer offsets store in Kafka or Zookeeper? > 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 > > > >
