[KAFKA-257] Hadoop producer should use software load balancer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.1
• Component/s: contrib
• Assignee: Sam Shah
• Reporter: Sam Shah
• Created: 26/Jan/12 05:55
• Updated: 06/Feb/12 23:12
• Resolved: 06/Feb/12 23:12

Description

Improvements to Kafka's Hadoop producer:

• Uses new Producer API (as opposed to SyncProducer)
• Supports software load balancer (Kafka URI for this is kafka+zk://<zk-path>#<topic-name>)
• Can set compression codec (default is 0 or no compression)