[sumtechguy]

Oh it most certainly simplifies things. I am looking at half the number of boxes needed to run. Which is not insignificant in my cost structure.

What is the migration strategy here? Is it doc'd up yet? I am having flashbacks to migration for follower partitions recently which required a decent amount of pre planning of partition layout.

Also as it is pulling in the duties of ZK into kafka what sort of CPU/memory changes are you seeing? Is it 'meh' or all the way to 'you may want to add a couple of CPUs and a few more GB'? Also is it working ok with the stretched cluster?

Also if you want to hit an interesting market you may want to look at 'does it run OK on a raspberry PI'.