Thanks for your response, and glad to hear you need this as well and are working on it.
Does using s3n:// file-path require that you have a Hadoop cluster running? I use S3 and EMR, so my Hadoop clusters are temporary. I do use Hadoop with S3 to consume the data Kafka produces, so I am fine with Hadoop as a dependency - at the library level, but not if a cluster must persist for the Kafka S3 consumer to work. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Matthew Rathbone <matt...@foursquare.com>wrote: > Hey Russell, > > We're actually about to start work on this exact thing here at foursquare > as we're about to start prototyping kafka to replace our aging log > infrastructure. > > We'd planned on just using the hadoop-consumer, but setting the output > directory to a S3n:// file-path. > > I'm assuming that you want to build a consumer that operates outside of > hadoop? > > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Russell Jurney > <russell.jur...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Ok, this is the last time I'm gonna beg for an S3 sink for Kafka. I'm > > not trolling, and this is Your Big Chance to help! > > > > I'm gonna blog about using Whirr to boot Zookeeper and then to boot > > Kafka in the cloud and then create events in an application that get > > sunk to Amazon S3, where they will be processed by > > Pig/Hadoop/ElasticMapReduce, mined into gems and republished in some > > esoteric NoSQL DB and then served in the very app that generated the > > events in the first place. > > > > So, if someone else doesn't contribute an S3 consumer for Kafka in the > > next month or so... so help me Bob, I'm gonna write it myself. Now, > > some of you may not know me, but I am the 3rd best software engineer > > in the world: > > http://www.quora.com/Who-are-some-of-the-best-software-engineers-alive > > > > Those of you that have seen my code, however, are aware that as a > > programmer, I am substandard. There's a gene that imparts exception > > handling and algorithms, and they're missing from my genome. > > > > So let me be clear: you don't want me to write the S3 sink. A Kafka > > committer or someone with a real job should write the S3 sink. As soon > > as that thing is written and my blog post goes out, Kafka use will > > spike and you'll all be famous. > > > > So this is a direct threat: I am writing an S3 consumer for Kafka > > unless one of you steps up. And you will rue the day that piece of > > crap ships. > > > > In return for your contribution, you will be named in my blog post as > > open source citizen of the month, to be accompanied by a commemorative > > plaque with a pixelated photo of me. > > > > Yours truly, > > > > Russell Jurney http://datasyndrome.com > > > > > > -- > Matthew Rathbone > Foursquare | Software Engineer | Server Engineering Team > matt...@foursquare.com | @rathboma <http://twitter.com/rathboma> | > 4sq<http://foursquare.com/rathboma> > -- Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jur...@gmail.com datasyndrome.com
