[syslog-ng] Finding feature owner for Kafka source project

[Czanik, Péter]

Hi,

I got exactly the same feedback last week at the DORS/CLUC conference. My
feeling based on many F2F discussions (but not backed by proper research),
that Java is OK with large enterprise syslog-ng users, but the rest prefers
to avoid Java as much as possible.

I must admit, that with my SMB (small and medium-sized businesses) sysadmin
background I'm also biased towards C-based solutions, that's why I'd like
to do a proper user research on the topic instead relying on my feelings...

Bye,

Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Vincent Bernat <bernat at luffy.cx> wrote:

>  ❦ 21 mai 2016 20:33 +0530, Vithulan MV <vithulanmv.12 at cse.mrt.ac.lk> :
>
> > A simple abstract idea of this project is,
> > The syslog-ng application can read messages from the sources. It
> > processes them with filters, rewrite rules, parsers and finally sends
> > messages to their destinations. The syslog-ng application already has
> > a Kafka destination that is implemented in Java. The Kafka source will
> > allow syslog-ng to read messages from Kafka, for an example this can
> > be used for example as a queue between several syslog-ng instances.
>
> It's a bit annoying that so many interesting features have to go through
> Java. One of the major point of syslog-ng is its light
> footprint. librdkafka has support for both source and destination and is
> officially supported by Confluent. Its development matches Kafka one and
> it supports every feature in Kafka 0.9, including SSL and the new
> consumer.
>
> It's a bit late to complain, notably if you chose this project because
> you were comfortable with Java (and your mentor is obviously interested
> in doing that in Java too). However, this has already been pointed
> out in March without much response from Balabit. It's not just a matter
> of proposing code since such code is likely to get stuck in the
> incubator forever.
> --
> Make sure special cases are truly special.
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