Re: Using Kafka for persistence

2016-03-30 Thread Rick Mangi
This sounds like a square peg in a round hole sort of solution. That said, you might want to look at the work being done with kafka-streams to expose a topic as a table. > On Mar 30, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Michael D. Spence wrote: > > > Any advice on using Kafka to store the actual messages? > >

Re: Using Kafka for persistence

2016-03-30 Thread Michael D. Spence
Any advice on using Kafka to store the actual messages? On 3/22/2016 6:32 PM, Michael D. Spence wrote: We have to construct a messaging application that functions as a switch between other applications in the enterprise. Since our switch need only have a few days worth of messages, we are con

Using Kafka for persistence

2016-03-22 Thread Michael D. Spence
We have to construct a messaging application that functions as a switch between other applications in the enterprise. Since our switch need only have a few days worth of messages, we are considering using Kafka as the means for persistence of the messages themselves, using something else such as