Re: question in regard to KIP-30

2015-08-17 Thread Sergiy Yevtushenko
Well, from my point of view it at least makes sense to abstract out the implementation. Now any attempt to replace ZK with something else will lead to significant efforts. So, even providing of pluggable interface for the consensus and metadata would be extremely helpful and would enable other peop

Re: question in regard to KIP-30

2015-08-17 Thread Joe Stein
I don't think it makes sense to change the core default implementation with KIP-30. Too much risk both in stability and in increasing the time to getting it done and available for folks that want to try Kafka without Zookeeper. It would be interesting to see how that implementation would work alon