Yes agreed, but I have done some load testing before and kafka was doing 10's of thousands of messages per second.
If I am doing only hundreds, I think it could handle it for now. Like I said this is small scale. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Neha Narkhede <neha.narkh...@gmail.com>wrote: > It is not recommended to install both kafka and zookeeper on the same box > as both would fight for the available memory and performance will degrade. > > Thanks > Neha > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:29 AM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I like how kafka operates, but I'm wondering if it is possible to run > > everything on a single ec2 instance with 7.5 GB RAM. > > > > So that would be zookeeper and a single kafka broker. > > > > I would have a separate server to consume from the broker. > > > > Producers would be from my web servers. > > > > > > I don't want to complicate things as i don't really need failover or > > redundancy etc. I just want to keep things simple. > > > > I'll have a single topic, and a few partitions because I want the > guarantee > > that the messages are in order. > > > > > > Is this something that would be really out of the norm and not > recommended? > > i.e. nobody really uses it this way and who knows what is going to > happen? > > :) > > >
