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David Arthur commented on KAFKA-657:
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Yes, they are somewhat orthogonal. The only real use I can think of is 
concurrency control around offset updates, however if that stuff has been 
serialized in the Scala consumer then it is a non-issue. Perhaps it's best to 
punt on conditional commits for the time being.
                
> Add an API to commit offsets
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-657
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-657
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Jay Kreps
>              Labels: project
>         Attachments: KAFKA-657v1.patch, KAFKA-657v2.patch
>
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> Currently the consumer directly writes their offsets to zookeeper. Two 
> problems with this: (1) This is a poor use of zookeeper, and we need to 
> replace it with a more scalable offset store, and (2) it makes it hard to 
> carry over to clients in other languages. A first step towards accomplishing 
> that is to add a proper Kafka API for committing offsets. The initial version 
> of this would just write to zookeeper as we do today, but in the future we 
> would then have the option of changing this.
> This api likely needs to take a sequence of 
> consumer-group/topic/partition/offset entries and commit them all.
> It would be good to do a wiki design on how this would work and consensus on 
> that first.

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