Hi Andre, Please see KIP-41:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-41%3A+KafkaConsumer+Max+Records The aim is to include this in the next release of Kafka. Ismael On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:21 PM, André <old.speck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there > > I've just started evaluating Kafka as an additional message broker to be > supported by the platform I work for. Currently, we support AMQP and JMS. > > One of our use-cases for messaging is to use queues for distributing tasks > to workers as they become available. > > I've noticed that by using a common group id and multiple partitions, the > messages are fairly distributed among consumers of a given topic, but still > messages might be consumed in batches and we would prefer to poll only one > message at a time from the broker, which is the behavior we currently > expect while working with the other message brokers we support. > > Which leads me to ask: Is there a way of determining that a Kafka consumer > will poll only one message at a time? > > Cheers > Andre >
