Consumer and Consumer Groups
Explore the role of Kafka consumers and consumer groups in processing messages from topics. Understand partition assignments, consumer configurations, and how consumer groups help scale message consumption effectively. This lesson guides you through managing multiple consumers and partitions to ensure efficient data pipeline performance.
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Consumers, or readers, receive messages from Kafka topics. The class that represents the consumer concept is KafkaConsumer. Consumers subscribe to topics, then receive messages that producers write to a topic. Typically, each consumer belongs to a consumer group. A single producer or multiple producers may write messages to a topic faster than a single consumer can read them, causing the consumer ...