This does come up often, interesting solution. And another reason to dig more into Go so I can give this a spin.
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/ On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Scott Clasen <sc...@heroku.com> wrote: > Thought Id post this here, as Ive seen questions here around "What do I do > if kafka is down?" > > here is one possibility. > > https://github.com/sclasen/event-shuttle > > this is a go service meant to run as a unix daemon, and apps running on the > same box can just post messages over http to a service on localhost. The > service journals messages through boltdb and delivers them to kafka when > its available. > > It also works around the problem of producing to kafka from languages that > have *ahem* less robust client implementations, as hopefully any lang can > post over http. > > Most appropriate for emmitters of higher-value, lower-volume events. > > Thoughts? > SC >
