Hello, I have a couple questions about consumers.
1) What's the preferred method of writing a consumer? The SimpleConsumer or the Zookeeper consumer? I'm guessing the Zookeeper one allows the consumer to handle failures within the Kafka cluster. E.g. If one node goes down, the consumer will then pull from the replicated node. 2) What's the proper way to track which messages have been processed by a consumer? The scenario I'm looking at is if a consumer dies and we later restart it. What we don't want happening is the consumer re-processing records that have already been processed. What I'm basically looking for are best practices for setting up a system where we have to handle a high-volume of traffic. Thanks. Casey
