Consumer Groups

Consumer Groups

How Kafka consumer groups distribute partitions across cooperating consumers to scale reads horizontally, and how rebalancing keeps that assignment correct.

How to Design a Distributed Message Queue

A distributed message queue is designed as partitioned, append-only logs replicated across brokers, where producers write to a partition by key, consumers in a…

What Is Apache Kafka and How Does It Work?

Apache Kafka is a distributed, durable event-streaming platform that stores records as an ordered, append-only log split into partitions, allowing many indepen…