
Kafka Consumer Group is a Brilliant Design Choice and We should Discuss it
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Kafka's Design Choice
Kafka's design choice is very interesting, and at first I was very confused about this concept. So what is a pop-up system? What is a queue, guys? Right? So we have the consumer that want to consume,. We said it's a bad idea to connect the consumer directly to the publisher because you don't want awareness. Coupling is the worst thing. You want social distancing and computer science. That's the rule of thumb. Avoid coupling as much as possible. There is no one fit thing. One fit all. This is not a T-shirt. But there is so much stuff you can tweak a little bit of a thing to fit and suit
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