Re: compatibility: 0.8.1.1 broker, 0.8.2.2 producer

2015-12-23 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Yes, that should be safe. You can always find notes about upgrades here http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#upgrade where it will discuss anything you need to be careful of. -Ewen On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Shlomi Hazan wrote: > Thank you both Ewen & Andrey! > > The general rule o

Re: compatibility: 0.8.1.1 broker, 0.8.2.2 producer

2015-12-23 Thread Shlomi Hazan
Thank you both Ewen & Andrey! The general rule of upgrading brokers is clear, but it was important for me to hear what other people experienced. Ewen, I assume the broker upgrade from 0.8.1.1 to 0.8.2.2 is as safe as it could be, right? Like I can just take down a single broker, replace jars, and

Re: compatibility: 0.8.1.1 broker, 0.8.2.2 producer

2015-12-23 Thread Andrey Yegorov
I am using 0.8.2.2 producer with 0.8.1.1 brokers without problems. Version of scala matters if you are building with scala or some other components that use scala. Hope this helps. -- Andrey Yegorov On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava wrote: > Shlomi, > > You should a

Re: compatibility: 0.8.1.1 broker, 0.8.2.2 producer

2015-12-23 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Shlomi, You should always upgrade brokers before clients. Newer versions of clients aren't guaranteed to work with older versions of brokers. For scala versions, there is no functional difference. Generally you only need to worry about the Scala version if you are using the old clients (which are

compatibility: 0.8.1.1 broker, 0.8.2.2 producer

2015-12-23 Thread Shlomi Hazan
Hi All, Does someone has experience / encountered any issues using a 0.8.2.2 producer against a 0.8.1.1 broker (specifically kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1)? I want to upgrade my existing producer (0.8.2-beta). Also, is there a functional difference between the scala versions (2.9.2,2.10,2.11)? Thanks, Shlo