I may be wrong, but since there have been message format changes between 0.8.2 and 0.10.1, there will be a performance penalty if the clients are not also upgraded. This is because you lose the zero-copy semantics on the server side as the messages have to be converted to the old format before being sent out on the wire to the old clients.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Thomas Becker <tobec...@tivo.com> wrote: > The only obvious downside I'm aware of is not being able to benefit > from the bugfixes in the client. We are essentially doing the same > thing; we upgraded the broker side to 0.10.0.0 but have yet to upgrade > our clients from 0.8.1.x. > > On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 09:30 -0500, Tim Visher wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I have an install of Kafka 0.8.2.1 which I'm upgrading to 0.10.1.0. I > > see > > that Kafka 0.10.1.0 should be backwards compatible with client > > libraries > > written for older versions but that newer client libraries are only > > compatible with their version and up. > > > > My question is what disadvantages would there be to never upgrading > > the > > clients? I'm mainly asking because it would be advantageous to save > > some > > time here with a little technical debt if the costs weren't too high. > > If > > there are major issues then I can take on the client upgrade as well. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > -- > > > > In Christ, > > > > Timmy V. > > > > http://blog.twonegatives.com/ > > http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail > -- > > > Tommy Becker > > Senior Software Engineer > > O +1 919.460.4747 > > tivo.com > > > ________________________________ > > This email and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged > material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, > or distribution of this email (or any attachments) by others is prohibited. > If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender > immediately and permanently delete this email and any attachments. No > employee or agent of TiVo Inc. is authorized to conclude any binding > agreement on behalf of TiVo Inc. by email. Binding agreements with TiVo > Inc. may only be made by a signed written agreement. >
