Mark, I had the same question! Camus is super awesome, but doesn't have out of the box support for just writing Strings into HDFS. I submitted this pull request to support that:
https://github.com/linkedin/camus/pull/28 You can clone this directly from the wikimedia branch of Camus: https://github.com/wikimedia/camus/tree/wikimedia On Aug 30, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the quickest and easiest way to write message from Kafka into HDFS? > I've come across Camus but before we go the whole route of writing Avro > messages we want to test plain old vanilla messages. > > Thanks
