Thanks, I'll check this out. On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Russell Jurney <russell.jur...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 > -- Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney russell.jur...@gmail.com datasyndrome.com
