Re: Which is better?

2014-08-20 Thread Philip O'Toole
If you have studied the docs yet, you should, as this is a broad question which needs background to understand the answer. But in summary, the high-level Consumer does more for you, and importantly, provides balancing between Consumers. The SimpleConsumer does less for you, but gives you more c

Re: High Level Consumer and Commit

2014-09-02 Thread Philip O'Toole
Either use the SimpleConsumer which gives you much finer-grained control, or (this worked with 0.7) spin up a ConsumerConnection (this is a HighLevel consumer concept) per partition, turn off auto-commit. Philip - http://www.philipotoole.com On Tuesd