Hi, Kafka is designed to distribute traffic between brokers itself. It's naturally distributed and does not need, and indeed will not work behind a load balancer. I'd recommend reading the docs for more, but http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#design_loadbalancing is a good start.
Thanks Tom Crayford Heroku Kafka On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:15 PM, cs user <acldstk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone have any experience of using kafka behind a load balancer? > > Would this work? Are there any reasons why you would not want to do it? > > Thanks! >
