What I did for my project is I have a thread send metadata request to a
random broker and monitor the metadata change periodically. The good thing
is, to my knowledge, any broker in the cluster know the metadata for all
the topics served in this cluster. Another options is you can always query
zook
Currently, regular consumers can only fetch from the leader replica.
Otherwise, they will get an error in response. We allow some special
consumers to read from follower replicas, but this is really for testing.
Are you thinking of load balancing? Currently, we do load balancing across
partitions.
Hi,
I've been looking at the SimpleConsumer example, and that I've noticed that it
always reads from the leader, and reacts to leader changes by reconnecting to
the new leader. Is it possible to read from a replica in ISR that's not the
leader? If so, how does the consumer get notified the repl
