Re: Kafka over Satellite links

2016-03-03 Thread Mathias Herberts
Sat links induce roughly 250ms of latency, you have to tweak TCP Windows so you can saturate the link as much as you can, but besides that Sat links are rather common. On Mar 4, 2016 7:26 AM, "Jan" wrote: > Thanks for the input. > The IoT application could have a http

Re: Kafka over Satellite links

2016-03-03 Thread Jan
Thanks for the input.  The IoT application could have a http ingestion receiver to funnel data into Kafka. However, I am thinking about Kafka's ability to be able to injest traffic directly from IoT devices.   Does anyone have any recommendations while using Kafka Connect between producer &  

Re: Kafka over Satellite links

2016-03-02 Thread Christian Csar
I would not do that. I admit I may be a bit biased due to working for Buddy Platform (IoT backend stuff including telemetry collection), but you want to send the data via some protocol (HTTP? MQTT? COAP?) to the central hub and then have those servers put the data into Kafka. Now if you want to

Kafka over Satellite links

2016-03-02 Thread Jan
Hi folks;  does anyone know of Kafka's ability to work over Satellite links. We have a IoT Telemetry application that uses Satellite communication to send data from remote sites to a Central hub.  Any help/ input/ links/ gotchas would be much appreciated.  Regards,Jan