Thanks Mani for the KIP. I'll go over it and add my thoughts on this thread.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:04 AM Manikumar <manikumar.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kafka Devs, > > I created KIP-80 to add Kafka REST Server to Kafka Repository. > > There are already open-source alternatives are available. But we would > like to add REST server that > many users ask for under Apache Kafka repo. Many data Infra tools comes up > with Rest Interface. > It is useful to have inbuilt Rest API support for Produce, Consume messages > and admin interface for > integrating with external management and provisioning tools.This will also > allow the maintenance of > REST server and adding new features makes it easy because apache community. > > The KIP wiki is the following: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > 80%3A+Kafka+Rest+Server > > Your comments and feedback are welcome. > > Thanks, > Manikumar >