Kafka doesn't support time delays at all, no. On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Akshay Joglekar < akshay.jogle...@danalinc.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a use case where I need to process certain messages only after a > certain amount time has elapsed. Does Kafka have any support for time > delays? > Currently I am putting messages in different queues based on when the > message should get processed and at any given time the consumers only poll > the queue whose time is current. However this does not scale very well and > it's hard to provide finer second-level or millisecond level granularity > since the number of queues required becomes huge at that point. So was > wondering if Kafka provides any built-in mechanism for time delays that can > be used. > > Thanks, > Akshay >
