That's exciting news, looks very promising! I've added PyKafka to the Clients wiki page.
Good work! 2015-06-08 21:24 GMT+02:00 Keith Bourgoin <keith.bourg...@gmail.com>: > Hi Kafka folks, > > I'm happy to announce the 1.0 release of PyKafka > <https://github.com/parsely/pykafka>, a new Python driver for Kafka! > > This is an upgrade of an older library, named samsa, which was only > compatible with Kafka 0.7.x. We've spent the last few months upgrading it > to work with Kafka 0.8.2.1 and revamping the codebase to be cleaner and > more efficient. > > The biggest difference between PyKafka and other Python drivers is the > inclusion of a balanced consumer implementation. We implemented the same > balancing algorithm as the Java driver and PyKafka handles consumer > registration via Zookeeper like the Java driver. > > We at Parse.ly have been using this driver in production for a few weeks > and are confident in its stability. Even so, we're looking to add more > features over the next couple months and are always trying to find ways to > improve performance. > > You can find the project on PyPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pykafka/>, > Github <https://github.com/parsely/pykafka> and our mailing list > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/pykafka-user>. We also wrote a > blog > post > < > http://blog.parsely.com/post/2006/announcing-pykafka-python-support-for-kafka-0-8-x/ > > > with a bit more info. > > Cheers, > > Keith. >
