Thanks Dan, nice catch. I uploaded a patch to the documentation to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1153 once another committer +1 it I will push the change. any feedback on my change in the JIRA is welcomed I think changing it to say "Kafka only provides a total order over ..." made sense to me in context of the rest.
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/ On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Dan Hoffman <hoffman...@gmail.com> wrote: > *'Not that partitioning means Kafka only provides a total order over > messages within a partition. This combined with the ability to partition > data by key is sufficient for the vast majority of applications. However, > if you require a total order over messages this can be achieved with a > topic that has only one partition, though this will mean only one consumer > process.'* > > The first word should say *NOTE*, right? Otherwise, I don't understand the > meaning. >
