James,
You can reference confluent IO schema registry implementation.
http://docs.confluent.io/1.0/schema-registry/docs/index.html
It does similar thing as what you described. A REST front end that serves
data from a compacted topic and HA is also provided in the solution.
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 at
Hi,
I have a web service that serves up some data that it obtains from a kafka
topic. When the process starts up, it wants to load the entire kafka topic into
memory, and serve the data up from an in-memory hashtable. The data in the
topic has primary keys and is log compacted, and so the total
