Hi Chris,
Kafka producer doesn't require zookeeper anymore, so you can simply
connect to one of the brokers directly.
Tim
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Chris Helck wrote:
> I have a few newbie questions. I need to create a Producer that sends
> messages to Kafka brokers.
>
> Does a machine running a Kafka client (Producer) need its own instance of
> ZooKeeper running? Or does is simply connect to the ZooKeeper that is running
> remotely with the Kafka brokers?
>
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