Kafka 0.8.x failover with multiple data centers

2014-07-07 Thread Janos Mucza
Dear Kafka Users, I would like to use Kafka 0.8.x in a multi-cluster environment so that when my primary cluster fails, producers and consumers could switch to the secondary cluster. Clusters would be hosted in different data centers. A possibility would be mirroring topics (similar to Kafka 0.

Kafka 0.8.1 protocol description, metadata response issues

2014-04-11 Thread Janos Mucza
Dear Kafka Users, Could you please point me to the protocol description of Kafka 0.8.1? Particularly I would be interested in learning about any metadata request/response changes since 0.8.0. When requesting the metadata for a topic with 2 partitions that got deleted and recreated with 3 parti

Kafka 0.7: producer request commit ACK

2014-01-29 Thread Janos Mucza
Dear Kafka Users, Is there any possibility for a producer to request commit ACK using Kafka 0.7? The reason I'm considering Kafka 0.7 is integration with existing .Net application(s). So far I didn't find any Kafka 0.8 .Net client that works properly. Thank you very much. Best regards, Janos