Hi Karin, regarding 5 (fsyncing to disk), take a look at the broker configuration parameters whose names start with log.flush.
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#brokerconfigs Marko Bonaći Monitoring | Alerting | Anomaly Detection | Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support Sematext <http://sematext.com/> | Contact <http://sematext.com/about/contact.html> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Herwerth Karin (CI/OSW3) < karin.herwe...@de.bosch.com> wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I'm a beginner in Apache Kafka and have questions which I don't get it > from the documentation. > > > 1. If you set a Time To Live to a topic and to a message, which Time To > Live is prioritized? > > 2. Supports Apache Kafka a mechanism to stop the publisher if the > subscriber is too slow? > > 3. Is there a possibility of a script engine? Does Kafka supports the > implementation and execution of self-made scripts? > > 4. Is there a possibility to join topics or partitions? > > 5. Support Kafka such a following mechanism: A mechanism to control > whether each write to the store will also call sync on the file system to > ensure all data is written to the disk. > > > > I hope I will get support. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards > > Karin Herwerth > > EAI Development (CI/OSW3) > Robert Bosch GmbH | Postfach 30 02 20 | 70442 Stuttgart | GERMANY | > www.bosch.com<http://www.bosch.com> > > > Sitz: Stuttgart, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14000; > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Franz Fehrenbach; Geschäftsführung: Dr. Volkmar > Denner, > Dr. Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Dr. Rolf Bulander, Dr. Stefan Hartung, Dr. > Markus Heyn, Dr. Dirk Hoheisel, > Christoph Kübel, Uwe Raschke, Dr. Werner Struth, Peter Tyroller > > >