Tim, I've done something similar where I can bury control messages in my regular data streams (with some sillyness of putting a message out per partition), it gives me eventual consistency for minor logic updates like a config change. For the larger non-compatable stuff I spin a new job up concurrently and migrate that way.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Tim Williams <william...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was looking to just use kakfa to coordinate configurations that > affect other running tasks - basically listen to an "_conf" topic as a > high-priority topic. I'd need to send the new configs as a task > launches inside of InitableTask.init() and I don't see a built in way > and causes me to wonder if that's it's just a bad idea? > > Thanks, > --tim >
