Congratulations, great release!
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Joe Stein <joest...@apache.org> wrote: > The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the general availability > release of Apache Kafka 0.8.1. > > The 0.8.1 release introduces log compaction > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#compaction and a move to > Gradle for builds. > Other changes in this release: > https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.1/RELEASE_NOTES.html. > > Apache Kafka is high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system > rethought of as a distributed commit log. > > ** Fast => A single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of reads > and > writes per second from thousands of clients. > > ** Scalable => Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as the > central data backbone > for a large organization. It can be elastically and transparently expanded > without downtime. > Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines to > allow data streams > larger than the capability of any single machine and to allow clusters of > co-ordinated consumers. > > ** Durable => Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the > cluster to prevent > data loss. Each broker can handle terabytes of messages without > performance impact. > > ** Distributed by Design => Kafka has a modern cluster-centric design that > offers > strong durability and fault-tolerance guarantees. > > You can download the release from: http://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html > > We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to > report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at > http://kafka.apache.org/ > > -- Dan Di Spaltro
