Howdy, I'm considering the use of Kafka in the rewrite of a big legacy product. A good chunk of the back end code is going to be written in C++ (large in memory data-structures). The two possible options available to me for clients appear to be:
https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka and https://github.com/quipo/kafka-cpp The problem is that librdkafka currently only works on Linux due to the use of the AF_NETLINK API, and thread local storage. There may be other issues, but I just started playing with it today and that's what I've discovered thus far. kafka-cpp is incomplete (no consumer) and it looks unused. For either I would need to hop in and do some significant work. Is there any client I'm missing that can shorten my path? If I adopt one of these projects (lets say kafka-cpp) am I better off implementing the 0.8 protocol? I'de like to have something running in staging a couple months from now. How far out is 0.8? Thanks, Matt Stump
