Re: Kafka low-latency usage

2013-07-24 Thread Jay Kreps
Hey Jakub, Kafka has always been high throughput but has not always been low latency. In 0.7 and lower the produce request had low latency but the end-to-end latency (i.e. the time from when the message was sent to when it was delivered to the consumer) could be in the hundreds of milliseconds or

Kafka low-latency usage

2013-07-24 Thread Jakub Ryska
Hi all, I'm considering to use the Kafka as a low-latency message system. I want to have a system, that is able to minimise the delay between sending from producer and reading from consumer. I created a test on localhost, I created one consumer & producer and I send messages measuring the laten