Kafka-node is a nodejs client with zookeeper integration for apache Kafka, only support the latest version of kafka 0.8 which is still under development, so this module
is not production ready so far.
Zookeeper does the following jobs:
- Load broker metadata from zookeeper before we can communicate with kafka server
- Watch broker state, if broker changed, client will refresh broker and topic metadata stored in client
Follow the instructions on the Kafka wiki to build Kafka 0.8 and get a test broker up and running.