Chris, Not sure how stable those node.js clients are. In 0.8, we plan to provide a native C version of the producer. A thin node.js layer can potentially be built on top of that.
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Christopher Alexander < calexan...@gravycard.com> 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)? > 2. To support real-time activity streams within Node.js, what is the > recommended consumer polling interval? > 3. General advise observations on integrating a front-end based Node.js > application with Kafka mediated messaging. > > Thanks you! > > Chris >
