Kafka-backed Lift Actors

[Matt Farmer]

Hey all,

I had a Saturday morning hackathon for a few hours this morning and whipped up something I think you'll all find pretty interesting: LiftActors backed by Apache Kafka.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, Apache Kafka is a durable, robust, low-mainteance system that's very well suited for message brokering. We use it a good deal at MailChimp. Given that, in the past, I've used LiftActors backed by RabbitMQ - I was eager to take a shot at providing an implementation that uses Kafka to facilitate actor communication. Compared to Rabbit, Kafka is a lot easier to work with in my humble opinion. ;)

I've started developing a Lift Module to allow folks to incorporate this functionality. I've gotten it up on GitHub with some basic documentation. I'd love some feedback before I push it up to Central. You can find it here: https://github.com/liftmodules/kafka-actors

The README walks through the API, features, and limitations.

Let me know what y'all think!

Cheers,

Matt

[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

This looks spectacular. Nice work!

Antonio

[Henrik Härkönen]

Very nice! Kafka is interesting beast. I'm still planning to try out the Kafka as a data storage / event log, but life keeps interfering with the nerdy stuff too much. :D

https://www.confluent.io/blog/okay-store-data-apache-kafka/

So it seems your work brings my dreams much closer to reality. :)

-Henrik

[Matt Farmer]

Pushed it up to sonatype tonight for folks to play with. Latest instructions on the README. I'll make a tweet announcing it tonight or tomorrow morning. :)

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[Bhashit Parikh]

Awesome. Great work Matt. Going to try this out in my app this weekend.

[Riccardo Sirigu]

Thank you Matt, great work!

[Joe Barnes]

Very cool idea. Kafka seems to be the leader in that space, so it's fantastic to see Lift can now take advantage.

Joe

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