Since you mentioned you are having trouble with Zookeeper, thought I'd point you to our recommendations on Zookeeper operations - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Operations#Operations-Zookeeper .
These are fairly general and well known facts about zookeeper operations. If you are hitting some sort of bug, the zookeeper mailing list<u...@zookeeper.apache.org>might be able to help out. Thanks, Neha On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently, Kafka has a strong dependency on ZK. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Dan F <dfranko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We use Kafka at work. Occasionally Zookeeper gets sad, but I'd like the > > Kafka brokers and producers to be able to at least limp along instead of > > totally go out of commission. > > > > Is Kafka's dependence on Zookeeper deep or shallow? > > >