Randall Hauch created KAFKA-6208: ------------------------------------ Summary: Reduce startup time for Kafka Connect workers Key: KAFKA-6208 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6208 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Components: KafkaConnect Affects Versions: 1.0.0 Reporter: Randall Hauch
Kafka Connect startup times are excessive with a handful of connectors on the plugin path or classpath. We should not be scanning three times (once for connectors, once for SMTs, and once for converters), and hopefully we can avoid scanning directories that are clearly not plugin directories. We should also consider using Java's Service Loader to quickly identify connectors. The latter would require a KIP and would require time to for connectors to migrate, but we could be smarter about only scanning plugin directories that need to be scanned. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)