Hi, I have been thinking about the ease of use for operations with Kafka. We have lots of tools doing a lot of different things and they are all kind of in different places.
So, what I was thinking is to have a single interface for our tooling https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1694 This would manifest itself in two ways 1) a command line interface 2) a repl We would have one entry point centrally for all Kafka commands. kafka <CMD> <ARGS> kafka createTopic --brokerList etc, kafka reassignPartition --brokerList etc, or execute and run the shell kafka --brokerList localhost kafka>use topicName; kafka>set acl='label'; I was thinking that all calls would be initialized through --brokerList and the broker can tell the KafkaCommandTool what server to connect to for MetaData. Thoughts? Tomatoes? /******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/
