I don't know about speeding up rebalancing, and an hour seems to suggest something is wrong with zookeeper or you're whole setup maybe. if it becomes an unsolvable issue for you, you could try https://github.com/gerritjvv/kafka-fast which uses a different model and doesn't need balancing or rebalancing.
disclojure: "Im the library author". On 11 Dec 2016 11:56 a.m., "Jon Yeargers" <jon.yearg...@cedexis.com> wrote: Is there some way to 'help it along'? It's taking an hour or more from when I start my app to actually seeing anything consumed. Plenty of CPU (and IOWait) during this time so I know it's doing _something_...
