Awesome, I built a RESTful Proxy last week so I will integrate your library and check that out. I'll publish my Proxy code soon, it is getting thrashed internally right now. On Jul 15, 2012 4:21 PM, "Michal Hariš" <michal.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have a long interest in pub-sub and have written several variants of > proxies/bridges to JMS ( ActiveMQ, HornetQ and some others) in Java and I > share the motivations behind Kafka project (esp. the idea of keeping the > consumption state at the consumer side really speaks to my heart and also > the focus on persistence). > > So I started writing some proofs of concept for the 50GB of daily event > logs I work with and which I would like to turn into a real time streams > rather than offline hive processes. I often use php for proof-of-concepts > because it's easy to write and throw away but after a few hours of using > and looking at the Kafka PHP Client which is in the incubator trunk I have > ended up writing and alternative because the existing client does few > things which don't work for me ( mainly the fact that it loads the entire > fetch-response into memory and then processes internal buffer plus few > other things.. ) and doesn't do few things I need ( mainly doesn't try to > deal with the long offsets and decompression ) > > Please have a look if you're interested: > http://svn.xp-dev.com/svn/kafkaphp/trunk/ > > (Btw, having a robust and simple php api would be an easy step towards a > restful proxy which could be later turned into scala/java underneath once > the restful api would get stable) > > Michal >
