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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by praveen S <my...@gmail.com> on 2016/01/22 09:00:00 UTC

Communication between Kafka clients & Kafka

Do Kafka clients(producers & consumers) use rpc to communicate with the
Kafka cluster.?

Regards,
Praveen

Re: Communication between Kafka clients & Kafka

Posted by Ben Stopford <be...@confluent.io>.

Hey Praveen

Kafka uses a binary protocol over TCP. You can find details of specifics here <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol> if you’re interested.

All the best 

B
> On 22 Jan 2016, at 08:00, praveen S <my...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do Kafka clients(producers & consumers) use rpc to communicate with the
> Kafka cluster.?
> 
> Regards,
> Praveen