THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Eventually, we aim at deprecating the current membership/rebalance API. In order to get to this point, we would need to first move all the use cases away from it.
Connect
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Rebalance Protocol
Kafka Connect is the second protocol type which is currently supported by Apache Kafka. We propose to use a similar approach that the one used by the current proposal for Connect in the future. We would introduce a new connect group type and introduce a new set of APIs for Connect. The rebalance protocol is very similar to the consumer rebalance protocol but works with different resource types.
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