Re: Kafka related queries

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Re: Kafka related queries

Hi Gauri, I'll take a stab at your questions (others will undoubtedly correct me if I'm wrong). Kafka does work over TCP (what else :) No format expectations (binary). End to end latency depends on various parameters, like network, memory, but it is (if you consume straight away; i.e. no consumer

Kafka related queries

Hi All, I am very new to Kafka. I am still on the verge of deciding the platform to choose between Kafka and Kinesis for our requirement. Also it may take me more time to come up with a full proof answer, hence thought of parallelizing my search. Following are a few queries around Kafka :