Welcome to Pony Kafka.

This is a pure kafka client written in Pony. The goal is to eventually reach feature parity with the official kafka client.

The main reason this exists is because the alternatives weren't necessarily going to be clean/easy to integrate into Pony and its normal "async everything" manner of working.

You need ponyc to compile pony-kafka. This is currently tested with ponyc version master.

You also need the following (in addition to what is needed for Pony itself):

• LZ4
• Snappy
• Zlib

For Ubuntu 16.04 or newer you can run:

sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev liblz4-dev zlib1g-dev

For older Ubuntu you can run:

sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev
cd /tmp
wget -O liblz4-1.7.5.tar.gz https://github.com/lz4/lz4/archive/v1.7.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf liblz4-1.7.5.tar.gz
cd lz4-1.7.5
sudo make install

For OSX you can run:

brew install snappy lz4

You can then build the pony-kafka tests by running:

ponyc pony-kafka

or the example performance application by running:

ponyc examples/performance

This is currently alpha quality software that still needs more work before it is production ready.

A quick summary of features: