Adding to what Gwen already mentioned - The programming model for the Producer is send() with an optional callback and we get a Future. This model does not change whether behind the scenes batching is done or not. So your fault tolerance logic really should not depend on whether batching is done over the wire for performance reasons. So assuming that you will get better fault tolerance without batching is also not accurate, as you have to check you have any exception in the onCompletion()
The webservice should have a callback registered (using which you essentially get async model) for every send() and based on that it should respond to its clients whether the call is successful or not. The clients of your webservice should have fault tolerance built on top of your response codes. I think batching is a good thing as you get better throughput plus if you do not have linger.ms set, it does not wait until it completely reaches the batch.size so all the concurrent requests to your webservice will get batched and sent to the broker which will increase the throughput of the Producer and in turn your webservice. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:10 PM Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi Neelesh :) > > The new producer has configuration for controlling the batch sizes. > By default, it will batch as much as possible without delay (controlled by > linger.ms) and without using too much memory (controlled by batch.size). > > As mentioned in the docs, you can set batch.size to 0 to disable batching > completely if you want. > > It is worthwhile to consider using the producer callback to avoid losing > messages when the webservice crashes (for example have the webservice only > consider messages as sent if the callback is triggered for a successful > send). > > You can read more information on batching here: > > http://ingest.tips/2015/07/19/tips-for-improving-performance-of-kafka-producer/ > > And some examples on how to produce data to Kafka with the new producer - > both with futures and callbacks here: > > https://github.com/gwenshap/kafka-examples/blob/master/SimpleCounter/src/main/java/com/shapira/examples/producer/simplecounter/DemoProducerNewJava.java > > Gwen > > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Neelesh <neele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We are fronting all our Kafka requests with a simple web service (we do > > some additional massaging and writing to other stores as well). The new > > KafkaProducer in 0.8.2 seems very geared towards producer batching. Most > of > > our payload are single messages. > > > > Producer batching basically sets us up for lost messages if our web > service > > goes down with unflushed messaged in the producer. > > > > Another issue is when we have a batch of records. It looks like I have to > > call producer.send for each record and deal with individual futures > > returned. > > > > Are there any patterns for primarily single message requests, without > > losing data? I understand the throughput will be low. > > > > Thanks! > > -Neelesh > > >
