If you really only care about small scale (no HA, no horizontal scaling), you could also consider using Redis instead of Kafka for queueing.
- Niek On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:23 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >> > :) >> > >>
