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[jjl]

Hello,

Sentry requires kafka now but ours doesn't get much traffic, so I've been looking for a drop-in kafka alternative that runs in a somewhat smaller resource envelope (oddly enough, we don't do as much traffic as sentry.io...).

I was going to write one when I found UncleK! How usable do you think it is at this stage? How much work do you think would be required to do what I need?

Thanks!

[voronaam]

Hello.

I have abandoned the project after realizing that many of the problems I was going to fix were stemming from the Kafka protocol itself and that a drop-in replacement would not fix it.

To give you one concrete example, I had a lot of idle topic-partitions with consumers on them and Kafka server replies with a big series of empty responses "topic 1 partition 0 - nothing, topic 1 partition 1 - nothing, and so on". But once I made my replacement server to respond with "nothing on any topic/partition you are subscribed too" I had to make changes to the vanilla Kafka client to accept it. Which is already not a drop-in replacement.

The list of such modifications I had to make was ever growing and reached the point at which I decided to abandon it.