Yes. That is correct. New consumer will only store offsets in Kafka.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Stevo Slavić wrote:
> Hello Apache Kafka community,
>
> It seems new high level consumer coming in 0.8.3 will support only offset
> storage in Kafka topic.
> Can somebody please confirm/comment?
Since Kafka's performance largely depends on the operating system page
cache. So usually people want to use dedicated machines for Kafka. But that
depends on your performance requirement as well. If you only have 5 million
messages per month, I think letting Kafka share the machines with other
syst