+2, these kind of articles coming from the ones who created Kafka always provide great value to Kafka users and developers. For my 2 cents, I would love to see one or two articles for developers who involved in Kafka development on the topics of how to develop test cases and how to run them, what to expect when error occurs, typical system settings, I suspect that most of us do run it on linux based systems, little pointer probably can help a lot. and most importantly how to set up your dev environment so that you are not struggling with the things the pioneers have already figured out. For example, recommended dev. ide, debug methods, of course, these will be the preference of the writer, no one is obligated to use but can certainly get people started quicker. As Kafka draw more interest, I suspect more developers will join, having something like that can be extremely helpful.
Jay, articles similar to the one linked in your original email can actually be submitted to developerworks, and you can get some money out of it if you like. If you do not know how to do that, I can certainly provide some pointers if you are interested. Thanks. Tong Li OpenStack & Kafka Community Development Building 501/B205 liton...@us.ibm.com From: Jay Kreps <j...@confluent.io> To: "dev@kafka.apache.org" <dev@kafka.apache.org>, "us...@kafka.apache.org" <us...@kafka.apache.org> Date: 02/25/2015 02:52 PM Subject: Tips for working with Kafka and data streams Hey guys, One thing we tried to do along with the product release was start to put together a practical guide for using Kafka. I wrote this up here: http://blog.confluent.io/2015/02/25/stream-data-platform-1/ I'd like to keep expanding on this as good practices emerge and we learn more stuff. So two questions: 1. Anything you think other people should know about working with data streams? What did you wish you knew when you got started? 2. Anything you don't know about but would like to hear more about? -Jay