Hey all, I'd like to propose a new broker side replica assignment strategy and an interface that generalizes replica assignment on brokers and makes them pluggable.
Briefly, the motivation for the new replica assignment strategy is that more and more of our customers would want to run their clusters in a stretched environment, where for instance a cluster is running over multiple regions (and multiple racks inside a region). Since this seems like a more common need, we'd like to contribute back our implementation and also make a generalized interface, so that new strategies that people may come up with could be served better. I welcome any feedback on this KIP. The link: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-879%3A+Multi-level+Rack+Awareness Best to all, Viktor
