Fwd: [Production Guideline] Is it good idea to provide limited number of brokers(3 brokers) in kafka client in large cluster

Hi, I have a use case where my kafka cluster will have 1000 brokers and I am writing kafka client. In order to write client, i need to provide brokers list. Question is, what are the recommended guidelines to provide brokers list in client? *Is there any proxy like service available in kafka

Fwd: [HELP] Guidelines/tools to test kafka performance with application layer involved

be helpful? Thanks, Pritam Kadam