Hello, One of the big attractions of Kafka for me was the ability to write new consumers of topics that would then be able to connect to a topic and replay all the previous events.
However, most of the time, Kafka appears to be used with a retention period - presumably in such cases, the events have been warehoused into HDFS or something similar. So my question is - how do people typically approach the scenario where a new piece of code needs to process all events in a topic from "day one", but has to source some of them from e.g HDFS and then connect to the real-time Kafka topic? Are there any wrinkles with such an approach? Thanks, Ted
