You can create a new topic for each of your client which comes online. If your client has some sort of identifier like SessionId, you can create a topic with sessionId as 'prefix/suffix' and send messages to that client. Once your client closes / goes offline, delete that topic using AdminClient.
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Tarik Courdy <tarik.cou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good afternoon - > > I am investigating using Kafka as a way to communicate directly with > clients that will periodically come online. > > For example, I'm thinking of using a single topic and creating a new > partition on that topic as the messaging channel for that specific client. > And then if someone wanted to send client specific messages to clients 1, > 3, 5, and 7 then they would place a message on the partitions that those > clients are listening on. > > Is this an appropriate use case for Kafka? Is it possible for the number > of partitions on a single topic to scale to tens of thousands? > > Thank you very much for your time. > > -Tarik >
