At LinkedIn, our message size can be 10s of KB. This is mostly because we batch a set of messages and send them as a single compressed message.
Thanks, Jun On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:44 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > When people using message queues, the message size is usually pretty small. > > I want to know who out there is using kafka with larger payload sizes? > > In the configuration, the maximum message size by default is set to 1 > megabyte ( > message.max.bytes1000000) > > My message sizes will be probably be around 20-50 KB but to me that is > large for a message payload so I'm wondering what effects that will have > with kafka. >
