This announces the 0.8.0 release of librdkafka - The Apache Kafka client C library - now with 0.8 protocol support.
Features: * Producer (~800K msgs/s) * Consumer (~3M msgs/s) * Compression (Snappy, gzip) * Proper failover and leader re-election support - no message is ever lost. * Configuration properties compatible with official Apache Kafka. * Stabilized ABI-safe API * Mainline Debian package submitted * Production quality Home: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka Introduction and performance numbers: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/INTRODUCTION.md Have fun. Regards, Magnus P.S. Check out Wikimedia Foundation's varnishkafka daemon for a use case - varnish log forwarding over Kafka: https://github.com/wikimedia/varnishkafka
