Github user rmetzger commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2131#discussion_r69274851
--- Diff: docs/apis/streaming/connectors/kinesis.md ---
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ to setup Kinesis streams. Make sure to create the
appropriate IAM policy and use
### Kinesis Consumer
--- End diff --
I think we should also mention the threading model of the Kinesis consumer
in the documentation.
Users should know that each parallel Flink instance will constantly query
Kinesis for shards. So if a user has 5 shards, but runs Flink with a
parallelism of 50, there will be 50 threads constantly querying Kinesis.
Also, we should explain that there will always be one thread per shard
running.
---
If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your
reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature
enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please
contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket
with INFRA.
---
