Durability

Hi, I have come back to looking at Kafka after a while. Is it really the case that messages can be lost if the producer is disconnected from the broker, as described in KAFKA-789 , and touched on with some elaboration in KAFKA-156

Re: How to view Topic registration info and Partition state info from zookeeper in 0.8?

You can use the eclipse zookeeper plugin, if you only want to sporadically view state.. On Mar 1, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Jason Huang wrote: > Hello, > > I am reading the "Kafka data structures in Zookeeper" > (https://cwiki.apache.org/KAFKA/kafka-data-structures-in-zookeeper.html) > document and try

Re: Kafka replication presentation at ApacheCon

Thanks Jun, great slides! On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Jun Rao wrote: > Hi, > > I gave a talk on Kafka replication at ApacheCon yesterday. The slides can > be found at > http://www.slideshare.net/junrao/kafka-replication-apachecon2013(it's > also added to Kafka wiki). I will share the link

Re: Error when running sbt test

Just to note moving to Unix you will no longer get this one, but rather the test suite will run. On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:38 AM, zayeem wrote: I fetched the head version(0.8) of Kafka and ran sbt test and got the following error. This is on a windows machine. Should i be using a different version

Re: Advice about running 0.8 tests

/kafka > running on the same box ? > Al though its a pain, we currently don't use any tool for viewing the test > results, but maybe the new version of sbt that we upgraded to has some > options that I'm unaware of. > > Thanks, > Neha > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013

Advice about running 0.8 tests

Hi, I grabbed the 0.8 branch today and managed building it with SBT as well as in eclipse. I'm running the tests through *./sbt test - *which naturally yields one long output that is very hard to deal with. What's your favorite configuration or tool for viewing kafka 0.8's test results in a more i

Re: status of 0.8?

As per 0.8, just a quick question about grabbing HEAD. What's the difference between the 0.8 branch and the trunk? Also should I take it from Neha's reply that replication is a must in using 0.8 even if you don't wish to use it? is there any design limitation (or operations aspect) that should make

Re: Committers: how do you develop locally?

Hi, Can you have a go at suggesting a viable dev environment for non-LinkedIn staff? Perhaps the following would make sense to ask in this context. - How much hardware would you throw at it if you didn't have access to a very large lab? - Have you ever run (for dev/testing) many compone

Kafka when volume is low

Hi, I've read about Kafka being used for huge paces and volumes of messages. My scenario is a bit different, I'm looking for mostly only persistence of a message queue, where the queue is usually not huge. This scenario means that messages are not typically queued for long. Why Kafka? What I like