Jeff,
Thanks for participating. We already have the discussion thread going
on. Please add your thoughts there . I'll keep this as interest check vote
thread.
Thanks,
Harsha
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:12 PM Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> -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
> > >
> >
>
