RE: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers

2013-09-13 Thread Xuyen On
Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:34 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers >> So my question is if we go with a hardware load balancer, do all the broker nodes have to treated equally? Ie: All broker

Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers

2013-09-13 Thread Neha Narkhede
using a hardware load > balancer? > > Thanks, > > Xuyen > > -Original Message- > From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:43 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs

RE: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers

2013-09-12 Thread Xuyen On
ages to using a hardware load balancer? Thanks, Xuyen -Original Message- From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:43 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers Take a look at the "Pro

Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers

2013-09-11 Thread Neha Narkhede
you help me > understand how you guys do this? > > Thanks, > > Xuyen > > -Original Message- > From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:39 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbala

RE: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers

2013-09-11 Thread Xuyen On
. Can you help me understand how you guys do this? Thanks, Xuyen -Original Message- From: Neha Narkhede [mailto:neha.narkh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:39 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers Kafka 08 doesn&

Re: Hardware Loadbalancer vs zookeeper for producers

2013-09-11 Thread Neha Narkhede
Kafka 08 doesn't use zookeeper based load balancing on the producer side. We rely on a hardware load balancer to be able to talk to any broker and get metadata about the cluster. This happens on startup, for new topics/partitions and if the producer runs into an error while sending data. Thanks, N