Re: Best practices for producer

[Li Tao <ah...@gmail.com>]

For producer, there is no need to know zookeeper servers to produce
messages.

For consumer, it was necessary to connect zookeeper to consume messages,
because previously the offsets value were
stored by zookeeper, consumer need to know the offsets value to read
message from kafka brokers. Newest version of consumer has no such
limitation, the offsets are stored in kafka broker.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Gmail - Jai <jg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am working/learning on kafka for producing messages and had a little
> doubt about kafka producer configuration.
> Currently I am using kafka 0.8.0 version and using zk.connect property
> which is not specified in documentation for .8 version but still works on
> this version.
> There is a property broker.list where we can specify broker host and port
> to connect to the brokers.
>
> My question is which way is the best practice to connect to kafka cluster
> with multiple brokers?
> Why was zk.connect dropped?
>
> Appreciate your help!
>
> Thanks
> Jai
>
>