
Kafka Consumer Group is a Brilliant Design Choice and We should Discuss it
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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What Is a Consumer Group?
Kafka does it with something called a consumer group, right? It's always like me, this with me. I take seven minutes to explain the topic of the video, but I kind of flirt for the whole video. A consumer can only consume a certain partition, right? In a topic. You have to tell me, if you're a consumer alone and you don't have any concept of a consumer, then by default you have your own group. There is no Ronin, right? ...You cannot be a Ronin, uh, uh, um, sort of man, right? So that's why we want. Robin and Cute as it differently, Kafka does it
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