Hi all, 0.10 consumers use poll() method to heartbeat Kafka brokers. Is there any way that I can make the consumer heartbeat but not poll any messages? The javadoc says, the recommended way is to move message processing to another thread. But when message processing keeps failing(because a third party service goes down for a while), the thread that actually processes messages could have too many messages accumulated. Maybe re-sending failed messages to another queue(IMQ) and re-processing them later is a good option?
Thanks! -- Yifan
