Hi,
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howard, > > Kafka consumers fetch data in bulk, controlled by the consumer's > fetch.size, to reduce the overhead of a network roundtrip. Hence, > there is no need for any special agent between a Kafka broker and > consumer. My concern is on the producer hosts, i.e. calling localhost should minimize the network latency, similar to a localhost SMTP relay. Thanks.
