Re: REST/Proxy Consumer access

2015-03-05 Thread Andrew Otto
BTW, Wikimedia uses varnishkafka to produce http requests to Kafka, and we are pretty happy with it. https://github.com/wikimedia/varnishkafka On Mar 5, 2015, at 13:09, Ewen Cheslack-Postava e...@confluent.io wrote: Yes, Confluent built a REST proxy that gives access to cluster metadata

REST/Proxy Consumer access

2015-03-05 Thread Julio Castillo
I read the description of the new Confluent Platform and it briefly describes some REST access to a producer and a consumer. Does this mean there is a new process(es) running (Jetty based)? This process integrates both the consumer and producer libraries? Thanks Julio Castillo NOTICE: This

Re: REST/Proxy Consumer access

2015-03-05 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Yes, Confluent built a REST proxy that gives access to cluster metadata (e.g. list topics, leaders for partitions, etc), producer (send binary or Avro messages to any topic), and consumer (run a consumer instance and consume messages from a topic). And you are correct, internally it uses Jetty and