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Oh hell yeah! That's great news, tons of work went into this -- props to the contributors! I will take the opportunity to say that Kafka is kind of painful, with or without ZK. Check out NATS! [0]. It doesn't solve all the same problems, but is so much easier to use (during development especially) and can do a lot of the same things. [0]: https://docs.nats.io/whats_new_20
Oh hell yeah! That's great news, tons of work went into this -- props to the contributors! I will take the opportunity to say that Kafka is kind of painful, with or without ZK. Check out NATS! [0]. It doesn't solve all the same problems, but is so much easier to use (during development especially) and can do a lot of the same things. [0]: https://docs.nats.io/whats_new_20
One immediate downside to this: it is now likely that fewer and fewer people will be exposed to the absolutely excellent Zookeeper logo.
One immediate downside to this: it is now likely that fewer and fewer people will be exposed to the absolutely excellent Zookeeper logo.
Oh hell yeah! That's great news, tons of work went into this -- props to the contributors! I will take the opportunity to say that Kafka is kind of painful, with or without ZK. Check out NATS! [0]. It doesn't solve all the same problems, but is so much easier to use (during development especially) and can do a lot of the same things. [0]: https://docs.nats.io/whats_new_20
NATS isn't actually using a log structure though, it's a streaming message broker with a different set of consistency/delivery promises.
NATS doesn't ever store messages persistently; but this might be fine for your application, and then you don't have to worry about setting 5 different config options to make sure Kafka actually frees up disk space like you expect it to ;)
NATS also enables some unique patterns like request/reply via a "reply to" message header.
Anyway, it's been a joy to use!
Kafka is a pretty cool technology, but for every project that I work on, it's never used because it feels like it's overkill (costly and operation heavy). Maybe I should start looking for bigger projects :D
Haven't used it personally myself but I've heard it enough to remember it. Redpanda[1] aims to be a Kafka replacement without having to worry about Zookeeper or the JVM [1] https://vectorized.io/
Kafka is a pretty cool technology, but for every project that I work on, it's never used because it feels like it's overkill (costly and operation heavy). Maybe I should start looking for bigger projects :D
One immediate downside to this: it is now likely that fewer and fewer people will be exposed to the absolutely excellent Zookeeper logo.
One immediate downside to this: it is now likely that fewer and fewer people will be exposed to the absolutely excellent Zookeeper logo.
