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Helena Edelson commented on KAFKA-1175: --------------------------------------- Hoping this hasn't totally fizzled out and the ZK portion isn't a complete barrier. If further justification is needed, in terms of distributed systems design patterns this enables many I use. For instance if you want some consumers on topics behaviors.anomalies.x, others on behaviors.anomalies.y and also want to watch behaviors.anomalies.* This is a strategy leveraged in other messaging systems which is helpful, and lends to securing particular topics as well, for instance consumers of behaviors.anomalies.{x or y} should not have permissions to any namespace above x or y and should not be able to subscribe to behaviors.anomalies.* > Hierarchical Topics > ------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1175 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1175 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Pradeep Gollakota > > Allow for creation of hierarchical topics so that related topics can be > grouped together. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)