Re: Send several Serialized Java objects under one Kafka Topic

Use Avro and a discriminated union / sum type to combine all the types.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021, 6:49 AM Peter Penzov <peter.penzov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> I'm working on proof of concept for sending several Java Objects
> under one Kafka Topic. More about the requirements:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65811681/design-kafka-consumers-and-producers-for-scalability
>
> I managed to implement this working concept:
> https://github.com/rcbandit111/skyobject_engine
>
> In this code example I send several Java Objects under one Kafka Topic
> and response is sent back into another Kafka Topic.
>
> I would like to ask you what are the advantages and disadvantages in
> this design of sending data between Consumer and Producer? I want to
> use a serialized Java object, not JSON because I think it's more
> optimized for performance.
>
> Can you share your feedback, please?
>
> Also is there some better way to implement this? Like for example
> using Streaming API?
>
>
> BR,
> Peter
>