Kafka Topic Partitions

Understand what Kafka topic partitions are, why are they needed, and how they work.

A topic can be broken down into multiple partitions. Each partition is a log on its own and has its own set of offsets. When messages are produced to a topic, each message can be routed to a different partition. Let’s take a look at a topic with three partitions:

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