Retrieve unacknowledged messages from partition

2017-10-11 Thread Tarik Courdy
Good morning - First off, thank you for apache kafka. I have been having fun learning it and getting it set up. I do have a couple of questions that I haven't been able to find the answer to yet that I'm hoping some can help with. 1.) Is there a programmatic API way to retrieve the list of acti

Kafka as a broadcast tool?

2017-11-02 Thread Tarik Courdy
Good afternoon - I am investigating using Kafka as a way to communicate directly with clients that will periodically come online. For example, I'm thinking of using a single topic and creating a new partition on that topic as the messaging channel for that specific client. And then if someone wan