WARN: This is an obsolete design. The design that's implemented in Kafka 0.9.0 is described in this wiki.

Motivation

The motivation for moving to a new set of consumer client APIs with broker side co-ordination is laid out here.

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This wiki has design details on the new consumer. This level of detail may be too verbose for people who are just trying to write a non-java consumer client using the new protocol. This wiki provides a step by step guide for writing a non-java 0.9 client.

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