Dears, I'm working on a project that should integrate spark streaming with kafka using java. Currently the official documentation is confusing, it's not clear whether "spark-streaming-kafka-0-10" is safe to be used in production environment or not.
According to "Spark Streaming + Kafka Integration Guide" https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-kafka-integration.html => "spark-streaming-kafka-0-10" is marked as "Stable" and "spark-streaming-kafka-0-8" is marked as "Deprecated" However, in "Spark Streaming + Kafka Integration Guide (Kafka broker version 0.10.0 or higher)" https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-kafka-0-10-integration.html => It's mentioned that "This version of the integration is marked as experimental, so the API is potentially subject to change." and also all APIs have the annotation @Experimental. Also, it has been initially released from around 3 years!! So, is it safe to use "spark-streaming-kafka-0-10" in production? and why this version is still marked as experimental till now? and when it's supposed to be marked as a stable version? Thanks,
