Hi Kafka developers :)
We use Kafka for around half a year as a main backend system for storing
events from big variety of internal microservices. In general It works
quite well and we experience issues only in some rare 'corner cases' where
we either run against a bug or do not understand why Kaf
Hi Andrey,
I am not sure I understand the question "why doesn't Kafka client have
the solution
for this kind of problems?" Can you elaborate a little on what kind of
problems are you referring to? And what do you mean by "circuit breaker"
here?
Jiangjie (Becket) Qin
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:07
Hi Becket,
I asked the same question in the user mailing list and we had a small
discussion there.
We have default timeout for producer and consumer it is 30 secs.
If Kafka is not available we will wait 30 secs on each request.
Decreasing timeout won't help much because we have a lot requests
but
Hi Andrew.
Is this what you're saying:
- sometimes you get stuck (like a blocking call) when you call some
function in the kafka client
- you can go around this case (by wrapping it) such that if the kafka
client call gets stuck your software doesn't get stuck
- you're wondering why the kafka clie
Hi Nacho,
yes, exactly.
On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 at 22:10 Nacho Solis
wrote:
> Hi Andrew.
>
> Is this what you're saying:
> - sometimes you get stuck (like a blocking call) when you call some
> function in the kafka client
> - you can go around this case (by wrapping it) such that if the kafka
> cli
At LinkedIn we've run into some of these problems. We're slowly making our
way towards a solution. It's a little odd in the sense that while it's
possible for some of our clients to block if the cluster is down, sometimes
that is the behavior we need. For us (in production) a cluster down or
unre