Distributed mode

With distributed mode, multiple workers (processes) run your connectors and tasks. The configuration is submitted using the REST API. It is scalable and fault tolerant. It automatically rebalances all the tasks on the cluster if any worker dies. Since it is scalable and fault tolerant, it is mainly used in a production environment.

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