Re: Unlimited Log Retention

2015-02-27 Thread Mark Roberts
Wouldn't it be a better choice to store the logs offline somewhere? HDFS and S3 are both good choices... -Mark On Feb 27, 2015, at 16:12, Warren Kiser war...@hioscar.com wrote: Does anyone know how to achieve unlimited log retention either globally or on a per topic basis? I tried

Re: Programmatic Kafka version detection/extraction?

2014-11-12 Thread Mark Roberts
Just to be clear: this is going to be exposed via some Api the clients can call at startup? On Nov 12, 2014, at 08:59, Guozhang Wang wangg...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds great, +1 on this. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Gwen Shapira gshap...@cloudera.com wrote: So it looks like we can

Re: Programmatic Kafka version detection/extraction?

2014-11-12 Thread Mark Roberts
. On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Mark Roberts wiz...@gmail.com wrote: Just to be clear: this is going to be exposed via some Api the clients can call at startup? On Nov 12, 2014, at 08:59, Guozhang Wang wangg...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds great, +1

Re: Kafka lost data

2014-10-27 Thread Mark Roberts
I think it will depend on how your producer application logs things, but yes I have historically seen exceptions in the producer logs when they exceed the max message size. -Mark On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Chen Wang chen.apache.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks, I recently noticed our

Re: Using Kafka for ETL from DW to Hadoop

2014-10-23 Thread Mark Roberts
If you use Kafka for the first bulk load, you will test your new Teradata-Kafka-Hive pipeline, as well as have the ability to blow away the data in Hive and reflow it from Kafka without an expensive full re-export from Teradata. As for whether Kafka can handle hundreds of GB of data: Yes,

Re: Improving the Kafka client ecosystem

2014-08-19 Thread Mark Roberts
Did this mailing list ever get created? Was there consensus that it did or didn't need created? -Mark On Jul 18, 2014, at 14:34, Jay Kreps jay.kr...@gmail.com wrote: A question was asked in another thread about what was an effective way to contribute to the Kafka project for people who

Re: delete topic ?

2014-06-18 Thread Mark Roberts
When we were in testing phase, we would either create a new topic with the correct details or shut the cluster down and hard kill the topic in zookeeper + local disk. In prod we have the cluster configured via configuration management and auto create turned off. The ability to delete a topic