[FLUME-851] Scribe style of handling events especially when there is a large event backlog built-up

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: NG alpha 1
• Component/s: Channel, Node

Environment

All

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Praveen Ramachandra
• Created: 17/Nov/11 06:00
• Updated: 22/Nov/11 05:12

Description

Newer events are of much higher value to be delivered than old events that have been accumulated.

Scribe does this very well and would like to incorporate it in flume-ng. Currently we use a dirty hack to realize this important/critical feature. If this is incorporated in the platform, users of flume-ng will benefit from this immensly