-1 I fully agree with Jay and Jeff.
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Jeff Widman <j...@netskope.com> wrote: > -1 > > As an end-user, while I like the idea in theory, in practice I don't think > it's a good idea just yet. > > Certainly, it'd be useful, enabling things like > https://github.com/Landoop/kafka-topics-ui to work without needing > anything > outside of Kafka core. > > But there are already enough things in the existing Kafka core that feel a > little half-baked, especially on the ops side... there's been a few threads > lately on the users mailing list where users have asked about functionality > that seems like it should be standard and all proffered solutions have > seemed a bit hacky. > > Similarly, while I understand the argument that having a solid HTTP > endpoint would obviate the need for other language bindings, I'm not sure > that's what would happen. From a speed perspective, I'd often rather use > the native bindings in my language of choice, even if it's unofficial and > may be lagging behind on features. So this doesn't feel that compelling to > me. > > I'd rather the Kafka community focus on making Kafka rock-solid at what it > does, particularly having the existing CLI ops tooling and docs be really > solid before trying to add fairly major new pieces to the project. > > Plus I think it's very beneficial for the Kafka community for Confluent to > have a strong business model--they provide many contributions to core that > most of us benefit from for free. Keeping a few things like the REST > interface under their umbrella gives them free marketing exposure while > still allowing the rest of us access to their tooling as free/open-source. > > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Harsha Chintalapani <ka...@harsha.io> > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > We are proposing to have a REST Server as part of Apache > Kafka > > to provide producer/consumer/admin APIs. We Strongly believe having > > REST server functionality with Apache Kafka will help a lot of users. > > Here is the KIP that Mani Kumar wrote > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > > 80:+Kafka+Rest+Server. > > There is a discussion thread in dev list that had differing opinions on > > whether to include REST server in Apache Kafka or not. You can read more > > about that in this thread > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-dev/201610.mbox/%3CCAMVt_ > > aymqeudm39znsxgktpdde46sowmqhsxop-+jmbcuv7...@mail.gmail.com%3E > > > > This is a VOTE thread to check interest in the community for > > adding REST Server implementation in Apache Kafka. > > > > Thanks, > > Harsha > > >
