Data is always provided by the leader of a topic-partition (i.e. a broker). Here is a summary of how zookeeper is used: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-actual-role-of-ZooKeeper-in-Kafka
-David
On 9/10/16, 3:47 PM, "Eric Ho" <e...@analyticsmd.com> wrote:
I notice that some Spark programs would contact something like 'zoo1:2181'
when trying to suck data out of Kafka.
Does the kafka data actually get routed out of zookeeper before delivering
the payload onto Spark ?
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-eric ho
