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I've successfully been using Kafka in production with a tiny percentage of packets ~1Mb. We utilize gzip compression with chunking on some of those messages (system is legacy, no fancy compressed message format in use). IIRC, only had to modify settings at the broker level and it works perfectly fine.

>>manish+(OP)
We've discussed switching to Kafka. There are some pros/cons to doing that. With respect to my problem above, our messages _could _conceivably approach 1MB (or even surpass it), so we're really just delaying the inevitable. That said, we're a long, long way from hitting that limit, so it's definitely something we're looking at.

We just recently started gzipping our payloads, which buys us even more time.