README.md

Redpanda delivery guarantees

This example goes into how tremors delivery guarantees work in combination with a sink and source that also support delivery guarantees.

The scenario isn't all-encompassing but looks at the following specific use-case:

1. A tremor source that does not hold guarantees.
2. A WAL to persist data from the source
3. A Redpanda instance were data is sent to
4. A secondary tremor instance with a Redpanda source that reads the data and prints it to stdout

With this we can demonstrate the recovery and delivery guarantees using a WAL with Redpanda.

We can start the example using docker-compose up. Then with docker ps we find the Kafka instance and can introduce an artificial error using docker pause <container>. We will see the messages stopping if we wait for a while we can reenable kafka with docker unpause <container> and will see the message flow resuming with a number of duplicated but no lost messages.

Verifying tremor is publishing to redpanda

$ docker-compose exec redpanda rpk topic consume tremor

Issue

Currently the tremor-out container doesn't always succesfully subscribe to the tremor topic.

It can be started via:

$ docker-compose up tremor_out

The underlying issue seems to be with topic metadata fetch and related to interactions between librdkafka and the remote ( redpanda ) in this case counterparty participant.