We're running on apache kafka 0.10.0.x and spring 3.x and cannot use spring kafka as it is supported with spring framework version 4.x.
Therefore, we are using the native Kafka Producer API to produce messages.
Now the concern that i have is the performance of my producer. The thing is i believe a call to producer.send
is what really makes the connection to the Kafka broker and then puts the message onto the buffer and then attempts to send and then possibly calls your the provided callback method in the producer.send()
.
Now the KafkaProducer documentation says that it uses a buffer and another I/O thread to perform the send and that they should be closed appropriately so that there is no leakage of resources.
From what i understand, this means that if i have 100s of messages being sent every time i invoke producer.send()
it attempts to connect to the broker which is an expensive I/O operation.
Can you please correct my understanding if i am wrong or maybe suggest a better to use the KafkaProducer?