Hi Neha, How do you get metadata about the cluster from the hardware load balancer? A load balancer should direct a message to brokers that are up but I don't know how you would detect for things like adding/deleting topics/partitions from the cluster through the hardware load balancer. 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'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, Neha On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Xuyen On <x...@ancestry.com> wrote: > Can anyone from LinkedIn let me know if they are using Hardware > Loadbalancer to distribute the producer messages or if they're using > zookeeper? > I'm trying to find out what the pros and cons are of using a hardware > loadbalancer vs. using zookeeper to distribute the load of producers > sending messages to brokers. Does anyone have any experience using > either/both? > > Thanks, > > Xuyen > >
