Is it mandatory to properly shutdown a Kafka producer? I have a single
producer instance in my web application. When we deploy / restart this web
application, we terminate the JVM process and start the web application all
over again afresh. So why should I worry about calling the close method on
th
If you don't shut it down properly and there are outstanding requests (e.g.
if you call producer.send() and don't call get() on the returned future),
then you could potentially lose data. Calling producer.close() flushes all
the data before returning, so shutting down properly ensures no data will
