Hi Stephen, Hans, This can help in keeping the traffic isolated in an availability zone, and avoid inter AZ communication.
Thanks, Mohit On Thursday, August 24, 2017, Hans Jespersen <h...@confluent.io> wrote: > We (Confluent) run Kafka as a SaaS-based cloud offering and we do not see > any reason for this feature so I just don’t understand the motivation for > it. Please explain. > > -hans > > -- > /** > * Hans Jespersen, Principal Systems Engineer, Confluent Inc. > * h...@confluent.io <javascript:;> (650)924-2670 > */ > > > > > > On Aug 23, 2017, at 12:42 AM, Mohit Chawla < > mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Hey Hans, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > In a cloud environment this can be useful. Perhaps if partitioning and > > replicas are selected appropriately, this could be possible ? > > > > Thanks, > > Mohit > > > > On Tuesday, August 22, 2017, Hans Jespersen <h...@confluent.io > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> Doing that doesn't really make sense in a Kafka cluster because the > topic > >> partitions and their replicas are spread out across many brokers in the > >> cluster. That's what enables the parallel processing and fault tolerance > >> features of Kafka. > >> > >> -hans > >> > >>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 3:14 AM, Mohit Chawla < > mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > >> <javascript:;>> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi folks, > >>> > >>> Is it possible to pin kafka clients to use only specific brokers > >> throughout > >>> their lifetime and not just for the initial bootstrapping ? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Mohit > >> > >
