Thanks David. Yes, I am aware of the Prozess Node lib also. I forgot to include it in my posting. Good catch!
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Arthur" <mum...@gmail.com> To: users@kafka.apache.org Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:58:45 AM Subject: Re: Kafka Node.js Integration Questions/Advice On 12/20/12 11:46 AM, Christopher Alexander wrote: > During my due diligence to assess use of Kafka for both our activity and log > message streams, I would like to ask the project committers and community > users about using Kafka with Node.js. Yes, I am aware that a Kafka client > exists for Node.js (https://github.com/marcuswestin/node-kafka), which has > spurred further interest by our front-end team. Here are my questions, excuse > me if they seem "noobish". > > 1. How reliable is the Node.js client > (https://github.com/marcuswestin/node-kafka) in production applications? If > there are issues, what are they (the GitHub repo currently lists none)? Just FYI, there is another node.js library https://github.com/cainus/Prozess. I have no experience with either, so I cannot say how reliable they are. > 2. To support real-time activity streams within Node.js, what is the > recommended consumer polling interval? What kind of data velocity do you expect? You should only have to poll if your consumer catches up to the broker and there's no more data. Blocking/polling behavior of the consumer depends entirely on the client implementation. > 3. General advise observations on integrating a front-end based Node.js > application with Kafka mediated messaging. > > Thanks you! > > Chris
