The message is sent as serialized over wire so there is no concept of width but only length.
The message size is specified in the broker config and default is 10 MB off the top of my head to prevent OOM. On Nov 5, 2013 1:06 PM, "Jason Pohl" <pohl.posit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am new to pub-sub architecture and am looking at Kafka to be a data hub. > > My question is there any limit to how wide a message should be in terms of > number of fields. Not so much an absolute limit or a theoretical one, but > more of a practical limit. > > What is the "widest" message that you typically process? > > JP
