New to Kafka: ZooKeeper and Client

[Chris Helck <Ch...@ebs.com>]

I have a few newbie questions. I need to create a Producer that sends messages to Kafka brokers.

Does a machine running a Kafka client (Producer) need its own instance of ZooKeeper running? Or does is simply connect to the ZooKeeper that is running remotely with the Kafka brokers?

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Re: New to Kafka: ZooKeeper and Client

[Timothy Chen <tn...@gmail.com>]

Hi Chris,

Kafka producer doesn't require zookeeper anymore, so you can simply
connect to one of the brokers directly.

Tim

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Chris Helck <Ch...@ebs.com> wrote:
> I have a few newbie questions. I need to create a Producer that sends messages to Kafka brokers.
>
> Does a machine running a Kafka client (Producer) need its own instance of ZooKeeper running? Or does is simply connect to the ZooKeeper that is running remotely with the Kafka brokers?
>
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