Do you think things will change now , with Kafta makers setting up own company and will provide commercial support?
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:28 AM, cac...@gmail.com <cac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah the real question is really are the products built on top of Kafka > (Kafka with a hat on). The last place I worked we ended up using Kinesis > rather than Kafka basically for the reason Niek mentions, it seemed easier > to accept the limitations and pay Amazon rather than run Kafka (small > company <30 devs), and my current place (<10 people) is moving towards > Azure Event Hubs (C#/Azure shop) for similar reasons. > > The Kafka producer and consumer code certainly seems way better than that > for EventHubs and Kinesis (assuming you're in C# for Azure and Java for the > others). > > Christian > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Niek Sanders <niek.sand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Many similarities. > > > > For Kinesis right now: > > > > * only a 1 day max retention > > * max 50KB message size > > * guaranteed throughput based on MB/sec in and out. > > * servers hosting the shards abstracted away by SaaS > > > > For collaborative consumption, Kinesis uses DynamoDB whereas Kafka > > uses Zookeeper. > > > > Until recently, the collaborative consumption library was Java only. > > They recently released a bridge daemon (MultiLangDaemon) which lets > > you use Python too. I wrote a Golang client for using that same > > bridge daemon in about a day (https://github.com/nieksand/gokinesis). > > > > For handling the broker topology, you just write to the Kinesis API > > which takes care of the distribution to the appropriate shards > > > > Another downside on Kinesis is that it doesn't have Kafka's neat > > producer-side message batch compression. > > > > The most compelling use case for Kinesis right now is if you're and > > AWS shop and don't want to deal with setting up and maintaining a > > Kafka cluster. And even then it's only applicable if you're use case > > fits inside the retention and message size limitations. > > > > Best, > > Niek > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Joseph Lawson <jlaw...@roomkey.com> > > wrote: > > > Oh man they look similar. Any comments? > > >
