Oh, one more thing. There has actually been some discussion about making
broker discovery pluggable so that you can integrate with frameworks like
etcd and consul. If we go down that route, it might make sense to provide a
plugin for Zookeeper, although I think you'd still want to keep the client
f
Hi Tian,
Removing the client dependence on Zookeeper has been one of the main goals
of the Kafka team for a while now. It simplifies client development since
it's one less dependence and one less remote system they have to manage
interaction with. It also makes a lot of sense with the security fea
Hi All:
I want to known why use "bootstrap.servers" to establish the initial
connection to the Kafka cluster when I initialize a Producer or Consumer？
Why not let producer or consumer connect to the zookeeper to get the
broker's ip and port? I think this is one way to decouple the clien
