Great work! Having a solid doc/spec for the wire protocol would also likely decrease the need to have as many clients in-tree. I think at this point that would be a good thing.
On 11/23/2011 06:32 PM, David Ormsbee wrote: > Hi folks, > > Inspired by the Wire Format wiki entry, I recently created a draft of > "Writing a Client for Kafka": > > http://readthedocs.org/docs/brod/en/latest/spec.html > > I tried to make it the document that I wish we had at Datadog when we > were total Kafka newbies writing client code. It's still very rough > and littered with "FIXME" notes where I've written things from my > understanding without verifying them with tests. I should be filling > all these gaps in soon, as we're planning to add a lot of > functionality to our Python client in the coming weeks. > > Comments and corrections would be greatly appreciated. :-) > > Thank you very much to the Kafka devs. We've been using Kafka a great > deal at Datadog, we're extremely happy with it, and we're looking > forward to contributing in our own way. We'll make an announcement as > soon as we feel our Python client is ready for community use. > > Take care. > > Dave
