MQ was just short hand for IBM MQ or Active MQ etc etc On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Luo, Chao <chao....@here.com> wrote:
> Hi thanks! > > Yes, I agree it is the best if they can use a kafka producer client. But I > need to discuss with them if they will accept that. > > Btw, what is MQ? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Freeman [mailto:mikfree...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 3:36 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Re: Role of Producer > > Could you write them a client that uses the Kafka producer? > You could also write some restful services that send the data to kafka. > If they use MQ you could listen to MQ and send to Kafka. > > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Luo, Chao <chao....@here.com> wrote: > > > Dear Kafka guys, > > > > I just started to build up a Kafka system two weeks ago. Here I have a > > question about how to design/implement the producer. > > > > In my system, there are many data providers. I need to collect > > real-time data from them and store it in a NoSQL database. The problem > > is that different data providers have their own Java APIs, and they > > will not use Kafka-client to send data directly to my Kafka servers. > > So I need to first collect data from them and feed it to the Kafka > > servers. I guess I need to finish data acquisition in the Producers. > > My question is that there are a great number of data providers so I > > also need a lot of producers??? Or is there any more efficient ways to > deal with it? > > > > Best, > > Chao > > >
