Adnan Baruni

my proposal here would be to no longer mix the concepts of a feed and a trigger and have a separate whisk entity for feeds. then something like `wsk feed...

feed and triggers are fundamentally two distinct concepts with a feed being composed of a trigger and some event source (except for alarms, of course. another semantics discussion for another...

What @csantanapr said is correct. There wouldn't really be a need to requeue records. That data would be persisted for enough time to handle any throttling. Furthermore, a consumer is...

I think we should adjust the number of retries we're attempting, but maybe our strategy as well. So, some questions: How many retries? How long, in total, should we keep...

@csantanapr @rabbah @jberstler any thoughts?

@dubeejw perhaps we should use a backoff strategy. i.e. start n comsumers on startup, wait the interval, start n comsumers, wait the interval, etc... where the interval is global

@ScottChapman we run ```python value = value.encode('utf-8') ``` merely to ensure that the data is valid unicode. the motivation behind this is that in the past we have received corrupted...

@ScottChapman yes i agree. it is very confusing. especially the way python 2.7 handles strings and bytes. @maneeshmehra thanks for providing that info. i'll do some testing on the provider...