Partitions

This lesson discusses Kafka partitions in the context of sending messages.

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When sending messages to Kafka topics, we can choose whether or not to specify a key. If we don’t specify a key (i.e. it is set to null), Kafka’s default mechanism takes over to assign a partition. The default partitioner directs the message to one of the available partitions in a round-robin fashion. ...

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