[IGNITE-2016] Update KafkaStreamer to fit new features introduced in Kafka 0.9

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 1.6
• Component/s: streaming
• Assignee: Roman Shtykh
• Reporter: Roman Shtykh
• Created: 27/Nov/15 09:16
• Updated: 24/Feb/16 03:38
• Resolved: 01/Feb/16 01:55

Description

Particularly,

• new consumer
• Kafka Connect (Copycat)
  http://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-0.9-is-released

This can be a a different integration task or a complete re-write of the current implementation, considering the fact that Kafka Connect is a new standard way for "large-scale, real-time data import and export for Kafka."