title: Consuming from a replica
body: <p>Kafka replicates each partition of a topic up-to specified replication factor.</p>
  
  <p>As far as I know, all write and read requests are routed to the leader of the partition. Is there any way to consume from the followers not from the leader?</p>
  
  <p>Is the replication in Kafka only for fail-over?</p>