fuck apache kafka this worthless piece of shit never fucking works >:(

I'm thinking of using it for something. Im curious, what issues have you had with it?

Your message has been queued, but won't be received by Apache because it was dropped.

Used Kafka and Zookeeper running in Docker containers in swarm mode; publicly available on Docker registry, and they worked out of the box. Really good for prototyping

@dfox @booshi
Kafka is great WHEN it works. Long story short:
I am prototyping some concept that requires robust messaging system. Started f* around with kafka - first week one problem: any out of the box tutorial, solution example runs, kafka server is up, detects consumer and producer connection but... NO MESSAGES FLOW! at all! After reading trough all forums, disabling firewalls on server router windows etc. (you name it) (I was running only one instance, no cluster setup so it SHOULD work) still no messages flow. I run kafka on windows power shell - same story. Run it on a windows laptop with bash - worked! Messages flow. At this stage I reinstalled the whole OS on my main machine (all fresh), run kafka from windows bash - no work... (FFS). I run kafka on ubuntu in vm - Works! messages flow. I went on coding for the next month, all was working great!

@provector
Yesterday it just FUCKING STOPPED working again. Everywhere, on a laptop it used to work, on main machine but.. it worked for 10 minutes on the afformentioned server that it wouldnt work a month before. I debuged for 12 hours and at this stage I have no fucking clue or idea what the hell is wrong. I don't know, another fresh install didn't helped. Think ill go back to yahoo pulsar :(

@provector
And to say upfront I checked everything including all the settings my code, and even went back to the very first tutorial examples. Yet still doesn't work. Any ideas and suggestions welcome. I've feeling Im doing something very wrong or the matrix just got bugged in my life instance.

Nevermind. Use it in whatever prohect you want. Great tool. Just make sure you've no processes running on the same port as zookeeper and set debug level to max ;)