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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by Ryan Worsley <ry...@gmail.com> on 2018/02/26 16:18:09 UTC

Writing a message to all partitions

Hey everyone,

I believe I have a use-case for writing a control message periodically and
transactionally to ALL partitions of a topic (so that it's totally ordered
with respect to events).

Does anyone know if this is a terrible idea?  Are there any best practices
with doing it?  Is there a better, more canonical pattern for achieving it?

Kind regards,
Ryan.

Re: Writing a message to all partitions

Posted by Matt Farmer <ma...@frmr.me>.

I don’t think this is a terrible idea. It’s really the only way to know what events were before and what events were after an event across all partitions.

> On Feb 26, 2018, at 11:18 AM, Ryan Worsley <ry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I believe I have a use-case for writing a control message periodically and
> transactionally to ALL partitions of a topic (so that it's totally ordered
> with respect to events).
> 
> Does anyone know if this is a terrible idea?  Are there any best practices
> with doing it?  Is there a better, more canonical pattern for achieving it?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ryan.