On Thu, Oct 18, 2018, at 09:23, n...@afshartous.com wrote: > > > > On Oct 12, 2018, at 5:06 PM, Colin McCabe <cmcc...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Maybe there's some really cool use-case that I haven't thought of. But so > > far I can't really think of any time I would need topic priorities if I was > > muting topics and offloading blocking operations in a reasonable way. It > > would be good to identify use-cases > > > Hi Colin, > > How about the use-case where there are multiple streams/topics, and the > intent is to have a single consumer interleave the messages so that > higher priority messages are processed first ? > That seems to be what the reporter of the associated Jira ticket > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6690 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6690> > > has identified as a use-case he frequently encounters. I’ve asked him > to elaborate on the dev list though he has not responded yet. > > Best, > -- > Nick
Thanks, Nick. It will be interesting to hear more about that. best, Colin > > >
