On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Shane MacPhillamy <sh...@blinkmobile.com.au> wrote:
> Hi > > I’m just coming up to speed with Kafka. Some beginner questions, may be > point me to where I can find the answers please: > > 1. In a Kafka cluster what determines the maximum number of concurrent > consumers that may be connected to a data node? > There's not limit imposed by Kafka. Various resource limits (sockets, bandwidth, etc) will be the limiting factors. > > 2. What is a/the scale out strategy for a Kafka cluster when data nodes > run out of sockets for a consumer to connect to? > Currently, the expectation is that you read from a partition leader. The scale out strategy for a *topic* is to have sufficient partitions, where partition leaders are spread across many brokers, to support the desired load. -Ewen > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Shane -- Thanks, Ewen
