Hey Christian, That makes sense. I agree that would be a good area to dive into. Are you primarily interested in network level security or encryption on disk?
-Jay On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Christian Csar <christ...@csar.us> wrote: > I wouldn't say no to some discussion of encryption. We're running on Azure > EventHubs (with preparations for Kinesis for EC2, and Kafka for deployments > in customer datacenters when needed) so can't just use disk level > encryption (which would have its own overhead). We're putting all of our > messages inside of encrypted envelopes before sending them to the stream > which limits our opportunities for schema verification of the underlying > messages to the declared type of the message. > > Encryption at rest mostly works out to a sales point for customers who want > assurances, and in a Kafka focused discussion might be dealt with by > covering disk encryption and how the conversations between Kafka instances > are protected. > > Christian > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jay Kreps <j...@confluent.io> wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > One thing we tried to do along with the product release was start to put > > together a practical guide for using Kafka. I wrote this up here: > > http://blog.confluent.io/2015/02/25/stream-data-platform-1/ > > > > I'd like to keep expanding on this as good practices emerge and we learn > > more stuff. So two questions: > > 1. Anything you think other people should know about working with data > > streams? What did you wish you knew when you got started? > > 2. Anything you don't know about but would like to hear more about? > > > > -Jay > > >
