1) Should a producer be aware of which broker to write to or is this somehow managed by Kafka itself. For example, If I have 2 brokers with a configured partition size of 1 will my messages be written in a round-robin type of fashion to each broker or is this completed dependent on which broker the consume connects to?
2) Similar question goes for a writing to a topic that has multiple partitions. Are the writes randomly load-balanced between partitions or is this something the client needs to do? 3) If I have 1 topic with 1 partition and 2 brokers how does consuming messages work. For example, if my consumer connects to broker 1 how does it consume messages written to broker 2? Thanks
