At LinkedIn, we are also building a native C producer client for 0.8. It uses non-blocking socket I/O to improve the producer throughput. We plan to open source it when it's fully tested, hopefully in a couple of months.
Thanks, Jun On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Matthew Stump <mst...@matthewstump.com>wrote: > 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 >
