Hey Hans, Thanks for your reply.
In a cloud environment this can be useful. Perhaps if partitioning and replicas are selected appropriately, this could be possible ? Thanks, Mohit On Tuesday, August 22, 2017, Hans Jespersen <h...@confluent.io> wrote: > Doing that doesn't really make sense in a Kafka cluster because the topic > partitions and their replicas are spread out across many brokers in the > cluster. That's what enables the parallel processing and fault tolerance > features of Kafka. > > -hans > > > On Aug 22, 2017, at 3:14 AM, Mohit Chawla <mohit.chawla.bin...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Is it possible to pin kafka clients to use only specific brokers > throughout > > their lifetime and not just for the initial bootstrapping ? > > > > Thanks, > > Mohit >