Why have partition at all, if I don't need to scale topic. Coupling topic scalability with consumer scalability just goes against messaging systems core principle of decoupling consumer and producers
On Wednesday, July 22, 2015, Aditya Auradkar <aaurad...@linkedin.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > Why not simply have as many partitions as the set of consumers you want to > round robin across? > > Aditya > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Ashish Singh <asi...@cloudera.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hey, don't you think that would be against the basic ordering guarantees > > Kafka provides? > > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 2:14 PM, J A <mbatth...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, This is reference to stackoverflow question " > > > > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31547216/kafka-log-deletion-and-load-balancing-across-consumers > > > " > > > Since Kafka 0.8 already maintains a client offset, i would like to > > request > > > a feature, where a single partition consumption can be round robin > > across a > > > set of consumers. The message delivery strategy should be an option > > chosen > > > by the consumer. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > Ashish > > >