Casey,
You are right about the high-level (Zookeeper) consumer dealing with
broker failures - in which case a "rebalance" is triggered to evenly
re-allocate the consumption of partitions across the consumers in the
consumer group. Furthermore, if you set autocommit.enabled to true,
then it will co
Hello,
I have a couple questions about consumers.
1) What's the preferred method of writing a consumer? The SimpleConsumer or
the Zookeeper consumer? I'm guessing the Zookeeper one allows the consumer to
handle failures within the Kafka cluster. E.g. If one node goes down, the
consumer will
