Re: Possible Feature: Topic Retention Policy

2017-10-16 Thread Guozhang Wang
Hello Alexei, Thanks for bringing up this question. Just my 2 cents: 1. For request-response messaging, I think an alternative approach is to use a single topic for request queue, and use one temporary topic for response queue. I.e. everyone sends their request to a single topic, and wait for its

Possible Feature: Topic Retention Policy

2017-10-14 Thread Alexei Zenin
Hi, I have come across a few stack overflow posts on the subject of request-response type semantics through KAFKA. From some of the approaches that I've read developers are using KAFKA's auto topic create feature (or AdminClient) to dynamically create topics per request-response channel. They