is Kafka Hard to configure? Does it have a high cost of ownership?

[Andy Davidson <An...@SantaCruzIntegration.com>]

Hi 

I realize this is a little off topic. My project needs to install something
like Kafka. The engineer working on that part of the system has been having
a lot of trouble configuring a single node implementation. He has lost a lot
of time and wants to switch to something else. Our team does not have any
Kafka experience.

What has your experience been? Does Kafka have a high cost of ownership?
I.E. Is it hard to configure, maintain and operate?

Kind regards

Andy

Re: is Kafka Hard to configure? Does it have a high cost of ownership?

[Cody Koeninger <co...@koeninger.org>]

Compared to what alternatives?

Honestly, if someone actually read the kafka docs, yet is still having
trouble getting a single test node up and running, the problem is probably
them.  Kafka's docs are pretty good.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Andy Davidson <
Andy@santacruzintegration.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I realize this is a little off topic. My project needs to install
> something like Kafka. The engineer working on that part of the system has
> been having a lot of trouble configuring a single node implementation. He
> has lost a lot of time and wants to switch to something else. Our team does
> not have any Kafka experience.
>
> What has your experience been? Does Kafka have a high cost of ownership?
> I.E. Is it hard to configure, maintain and operate?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andy
>