Correct. The use of the word "server" in that sentence is meant as broker (or KafkaServer as it shows up in the 'jps' command) not as a physical or virtual machine.
-hans > On Jun 27, 2017, at 1:22 AM, James <896066...@qq.com> wrote: > > Hello, > At https://kafka.apache.org/intro, I found a sentence: > Each partition has one server which acts as the "leader" and zero or more > servers which act as "followers". > In my opinion, it is possible that more than one brokers exist on a > machine with different ports and different broker.id, so I think the below is > more appropriate: > Each partition has one broker which acts as the "leader" and zero or > more brokers which act as "followers". > Thank you!
