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>For the longest time I just made do with Kafka but this had serious deficiencies when implementing queues because of the cumulative ack only nature of Kafka.
by closeparen 5y ago
>For the longest time I just made do with Kafka but this had serious deficiencies when implementing queues because of the cumulative ack only nature of Kafka.
We built a Kafka consumer that's effectively capable of selective acks by producing bad messages to separate topics. It's a little silly but it works.
- KptMarchewa 5y agoDLQ is the way to do this. Nothing silly about it.
- closeparen 5y agoIt's a heavyweight custom client to hack Kafka into being something it isn't, that other message brokers are. That's what's silly.