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Kafka Consumer Group is a Brilliant Design Choice and We should Discuss it

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Message Queues - Partitioning in Databases

Kafka uses a model of partitioning, which is not something new. It's just now you are different. You cannot fit anything and anything. So it fits a certain use case and hope that it solves your use case first. And you're going to hope that a lot of people have your same problem as you. All right. I'm not going to go through the communication model. Maybe this is another video,. But the consumer here is very interesting because if I consume a message from this partition or this topic, right, these topics, how do I streamline? "You can essentially have this model as a queue," he says.

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