Hi James,

Thanks for the info. For my use case I have a custom partition key
assignment to the producers.

Regards,
Siva.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:36 PM, James Cheng <jch...@tivo.com> wrote:

> Be aware that the old producer and new producer have different
> partitioning algorithms:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201504.mbox/%3C4A6E5F2C-232E-4288-8F9F-3F9D9AE05718%40tivo.com%3E
>
> This could bite you if you rely on key-based partitioning and are
> switching from the old producer to the new producer.
>
> Siva, this is less important for you, since you are starting to use kafka
> for the first time. And this is not important at all if you provide your
> own partitioning algorithm.
>
> -James
>
> On Jul 17, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Sivananda Reddy <sivananda2...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > I found it here:
> > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#newproducerconfigs, the same
> > link is reported by James.
> >
> > @Joel: Thanks a lot for the info, I will use new producer
> >
> > Regards,
> > Siva.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:02 PM, James Cheng <jch...@tivo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html, Section 3.4.
> >>
> >>> 3.4 New Producer Configs
> >>>
> >>> We are working on a replacement for our existing producer. The code is
> >> available in trunk now and can be considered beta quality. Below is the
> >> configuration for the new producer.
> >>
> >> Sivananda might have seen it elsewhere, but this is where I found it.
> >>
> >> -James
> >>
> >> On Jul 17, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Jay Kreps <j...@confluent.io> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey Sivananda,
> >>>
> >>> That's actually no longer true and likely a documentation bug. Where
> did
> >>> you see that?
> >>>
> >>> -Jay
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Sivananda Reddy <
> >> sivananda2...@gmail.com>
> >>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
>
>

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