I'll try to give an unbiased answer :)
I believe my library has more comprehensive coverage of the APIs for
0.7.x (e.g., MultiProduce, MultiFetch), as well as more test coverage
(including integration tests). However, it's newer and has had less real
world usage, so there may be undiscovered b
Thanks for the insights. Another developer where I work started on a Python
producer, previously attached, a few weeks ago initially using your
kafka-python lib, but for some reason switched to pykafka. Is one preferred
over the other?
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Arthur wrote:
> The
The fundamental unit of Kafka is a Message. A Message contains a few
bytes of metadata (a magic number, a crc32 checksum, some attributes)
and a payload of bytes. For the most part these details are obscured
from the end-user, so all you have to concern yourself with sending the
actual data (pa
What exactly does a "payload" mean? Sorry, fairly new to Kafka. Is there a
payload method that needs to be called by the python producer?
Thanks for any insights. Attached some sample code if you have time to lead
us to the water! Probably something simple we are missing.
Joe
On Wed, Dec 19, 20
Do you mean a Python producer that sends Avro payloads?
There are a couple of Python clients floating around, including mine:
https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
The Avro package is in pypi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/avro/1.7.3),
with official docs and getting started with Python on the
