I'm only guessing here regarding if this is the reason: Pull is much more sensible when a lot of data is pushed through. It allows consumers consuming at their own pace, slow consumers do not slow the complete system down.
-- Best regards, Rad On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 11:18 AM +0200, "kant kodali" <kanth...@gmail.com> wrote: why did Kafka choose pull instead of push for a consumer? push sounds like it is more realtime to me than poll and also wouldn't poll just keeps polling even when they are no messages in the broker causing more traffic? please enlighten me
