+1 In my personal experience Kafka REST server is one of essential parts on building a reliable real-time pipeline. It's okay to keep the code reasonably separated from the core, but would appreciate to see some official supports for the REST servers from the Kafka community.
Regards, Haohui On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:42 PM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > -1 > > I think it's good to avoid adding non-essential items to the Apache Kafka > project so that it can continue evolving at a fast pace. Since a REST > server can be naturally implemented as an external project, I believe the > disadvantages of including it outweigh the advantages. > > Ismael > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Harsha Chintalapani <ka...@harsha.io> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > We are proposing to have a REST Server as part of Apache > Kafka > > to provide producer/consumer/admin APIs. We Strongly believe having > > REST server functionality with Apache Kafka will help a lot of users. > > Here is the KIP that Mani Kumar wrote > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > > 80:+Kafka+Rest+Server. > > There is a discussion thread in dev list that had differing opinions on > > whether to include REST server in Apache Kafka or not. You can read more > > about that in this thread > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-dev/201610.mbox/%3CCAMVt_ > > aymqeudm39znsxgktpdde46sowmqhsxop-+jmbcuv7...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > This is a VOTE thread to check interest in the community for > > adding REST Server implementation in Apache Kafka. > > > > Thanks, > > Harsha > > >
