Broker-Visible vs Client-Local Parallelism (opens in new tab)

This post is a little side-quest from my “Kafka Share Groups and Parallelizing Consumption” series. My “Kafka Share Groups and Parallelizing Consumption” series (part 1, part 2) has been laser focused on how different configurations and behaviors affect parallel consumption in share groups. So far I’ve shown that you most definitely can hold share groups wrong. You could quite easily and inadvertently create a work queue and with the right combination of things going against you, see a small ...