Re: Some general questions...

2016-12-06 Thread Gwen Shapira
Yeah, that's a good point - Kafka on Windows has few quirks because most core Kafka developers are not windows experts and the big deployments are almost all on Linux. We discovered that most our .NET users actually run Kafka on Linux. Turns out that installing few VMs with Linux and running

Re: Some general questions...

2016-12-06 Thread Harald Kirsch
This sounds like you might want to run the Kafka broker on Windows. Have a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1194 for possible issues with regard to log cleaning. Regards, Harald. On 06.12.2016 00:50, Doyle, Keith wrote: We’re beginning to make use of Kafka, and it is

Re: Some general questions...

2016-12-05 Thread Gwen Shapira
Confluent already supports a C client (the famous librdkafka). We are indeed going to support a C# client, based on rdkafka-dotnet - we are currently busy modifying the API a bit to fit our taste better :) On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Tauzell, Dave wrote: > I

Re: Some general questions...

2016-12-05 Thread Tauzell, Dave
I don't know if any API to stream a message. I don't suggest putting lots of large messages onto Kafka. As far as documentation I hear that confluent is going to support a C and C# client so you could try asking questions on the confluent mailing list. Dave On Dec 5, 2016, at 17:51, Doyle,

Some general questions...

2016-12-05 Thread Doyle, Keith
We're beginning to make use of Kafka, and it is encouraging. But there are a couple of questions I've had a hard time finding answers for. We're using the rdkafka-dotnet client on the consumer side and it's straightforward as far as it goes. However, documentation seems to be scant-the Wiki