Correct. The use of the word "server" in that sentence is meant as broker (or
KafkaServer as it shows up in the 'jps' command) not as a physical or virtual
machine.
-hans
> On Jun 27, 2017, at 1:22 AM, James <896066...@qq.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>At https://kafka.apache.org/intro, I found a sentence:
>Each partition has one server which acts as the "leader" and zero or more
> servers which act as "followers".
>In my opinion, it is possible that more than one brokers exist on a
> machine with different ports and different broker.id, so I think the below is
> more appropriate:
> Each partition has one broker which acts as the "leader" and zero or
> more brokers which act as "followers".
> Thank you!
