Hi Olof,
I am just wondering what is the benefit of rebalancing with minimal number
of reassignments here?
I am asking this because in new consumer, the rebalance actually is quite
cheap on the consumer side - just updating a topic partition set. That
means the actually rebalance time on
Thanks Guozhang,
I agree that it seems to be a common reassignment strategy that should be
one of the pre-defined strategies. Do you have a Jira ticket for this
specific case, and/or a Jira ticket to add user defined
partitions.assignment.strategies that I can watch?
/ Olof
On 10/06/2015 14:35,
Hi Olof,
Yes we have plans to allow user defined partitions.assignment strategy to
pass in to the consumer coordinator; I am not sure if this feature will not
be available in the first release of the new consumer in 0.8.3 though.
Currently users still have to choose one from the server-defined
Is it possible to have a consumer rebalancing partition assignment strategy
that will rebalance with a minimal number of reassignments?
Per the Kafka 0.9 Consumer Rewrite Design it should be possible to define my
own partition assignment strategy: partition.assignment.strategies - may take
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