the official recommendations are here http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#upgrade_10
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:48 PM Vadim Keylis <vkeylis2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello we have a producer that is written in c language to send data to > kafka using 0.8 protocol. We now need to upgrade since protocol has > changed. We will upgrade broker first to 0.10 version and set > log.message.format.version=0.8.1.1. > > What is the right approach of upgrading producer to avoid downtime? > > Do we upgrade consumers before upgrading producers? > > Can producer send data using 0.10 format when log.message.format.version is > set to 0.8.1.1 ? Does anyone know what is the impact? > > > Thanks so much in advance for the help! >