Haojin, With the old "synchronized" API you can also enable asynchrony with this config "producer.type" in the producer configs:
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#producerconfigs The new "asynchronized" producer improves performance by using pipelining. Guozhang On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Haojin Gui <guihao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Playframework to build a web server that needs to handle very > heavy traffic. And it has a Kafka Producer sending messages to Kafka > brokers. > > Currently I am using the synchronized Kafka producer API and seems like > it's affecting the performance of the web server. I am considering > switching to async Producer API but not sure how reliable it is(I heard it > might loss message). Are there any other options to minimize the Producer's > affect to the server. > > Thanks, > Haojin > -- -- Guozhang
