It is pretty safe :) and adopting it now will save you the trouble of migrating later.
At LinkedIn, we are using the new producer for all the producers that the Kafka team directly own - this means mirror-maker pipelines, REST proxies and some auditing tools. We have not yet migrated other producers, but will likely proceed with that after https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2120 is done. That is probably not an extremely critical issue though if your Kafka deployments are smaller and do not have hardware failures as often as ours (which is mainly because we just happen to have so many brokers some of which are just older machines). Thanks, Joel On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:35:46AM -0700, Sivananda Reddy wrote: > Hi, > > Kafka document ion says that the new producer is in Beta state, how safe is > it to use the new producer in production?. This is the first time I am > using Kafka for my application messaging needs. Please let me know. > > Thank you, > Siva.
