>From the roadmap they published it looks like pipelining as part of the client rewrite is happening post 0.8.
Tim On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Tom Brown <tombrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > In our environment we use currently use Kafka 0.7.1. > > The core features I am looking for in a client are this: > > 1. Provide confirmation of produce requests (or notification of > disconnection during requests). > 2. Uses asynchronous IO so that: > A. Multiple ops can be queued/in-flight at once. > B. Fetch #2 can be in-flight while fetch #1 is being processed (without > requiring an extra thread per consumer) > 3. Allow precise control of offsets (like the SimpleConsumer). > > I have been working on a version of the Kafka client that meets those > requirements. However, I recall hearing talk of rewriting the client. Did > this happen as part of 0.8.x? If so, how different is it from the 0.7.x > clients, and how well would it support the requirements listed above? > > Thanks in advance! > > --Tom >
