-1 First, I think there was no technical discussion of the KIP details in the DISCUSS until now, just a binary yes/no. Real discussion just started with the excellent ten technical points from Ewen a few hours ago. Generally,I don't see how a standard REST makes sense for format-agnostic realtime streaming. It would likely be a poor choice for any high-volume messaging, and encouraging its usage instead of the existing native clients (or promoting it as an equivalent alternative) is likely a mistake and will hurt users. For those needing that functionality, they can get it today and can also participate in that ecosystem project (or fork it).
Ofir Manor Co-Founder & CTO | Equalum Mobile: +972-54-7801286 | Email: ofir.ma...@equalum.io On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:16 AM, 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 >
