Re: kafka connect questions

2017-07-05 Thread Clay Teahouse
Thanks Per for the feedback. My comments below. 1) There is a load balancer in front of the cluster. 2) Kafka does run in a cluster mode. I was referring to the producer that doesn't. Furthermore, the data sources are not heterogeneous and we cannot install anything on them. All we can do have th

Re: kafka connect questions

2017-07-05 Thread Sönke Liebau
Hi Clay, I agree with Gwen in thinking that you might want to take a second look at streaming protobuf data to Kafka and then having connectors read that from Kafka. To address the issues in order: 1. You say you have hundreds of machines sending data, but if you run a connector that is not tied

Re: kafka connect questions

2017-07-05 Thread Per Steffensen
Well I guess there is one: https://github.com/dhanuka84/kafka-connect-tcp Maybe you can use or build on top of that. On 05/07/17 05:45, Gwen Shapira wrote: I don't remember seeing one. There is no reason not to write one (let us know if you do, so we can put it on the connector hub!). Few thing

Re: kafka connect questions

2017-07-04 Thread Clay Teahouse
Hello Gwen, Thanks for the reply. My comments/answers inline. 1. Connectors that listen on sockets typically run in stand-alone mode, so they can tied to a specific machine (in distributed mode, connectors can move around). [Clay:] Even if the connectors move around, they can still listen to a sp

Re: kafka connect questions

2017-07-04 Thread Gwen Shapira
I don't remember seeing one. There is no reason not to write one (let us know if you do, so we can put it on the connector hub!). Few things: 1. Connectors that listen on sockets typically run in stand-alone mode, so they can tied to a specific machine (in distributed mode, connectors can move aro