Re: General question about kafka to use in a correct way

2017-01-19 Thread Dhwani Katagade
Hi Vishnu, Assuming that the POS application will generate POS events, we could accumulate these events in Kafka and use it as a data feed for live dashboards. We could do some common events stream processing within Kafka itself using the streams API. Alternatively the POS events stream

Re: General Question About Kafka

2016-06-19 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
The most common use case for Kafka is within a data center, but you can absolutely produce data across the WAN. You may need to adjust some settings (e.g. timeouts, max in flight requests per connection if you want high throughput) to account for operating over the WAN, but you can definitely do