+1 On this idea. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> I don't know of any such resource, but I'll be happy to help > contribute from my experience. > I'm sure others would too. > > Do you want to start one? > > Gwen > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Tom McKenzie <thomaswmcken...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello > > > > Is there a good reference for best practices on running Java consumers? > > I'm thinking a FAQ format. > > > > - How should we run them? We are currently running them in Tomcat on > > Ubuntu, are there other approaches using services? Maybe the service > > wrapper http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/download.jsp? > > - How should we monitor them? I going to try > > https://github.com/stealthly/metrics-kafka > > - How do we scale? I'm guessing we run more servers but we could also > > run more threads? What are the tradeoffs? > > - Links to code examples > > - How do we make consumers robust? i.e. Best practices for exceptions > > handling. We have noticed if our code has a NPE it's stops consuming. > > > > Also if this doesn't exist I would be willing to start this document. I > > would think it would be near this page > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+SimpleConsumer+Example > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > -- Jeff Holoman Systems Engineer
