Apache Kafka is an interesting software, every design decision the team makes perfect sense. I decided to dive deep into the discussion of the consumer group concept which is underrated and talk more about it.
0:00 Intro
1:24 Messaging Systems Explained
3:30 Partitioning
4:30 Pub/Sub vs Queue
6:55 Consumer Group
10:00 Parallelism in Consumer Group
10:30 Partition awareness in Consumer Group
11:30 Achieving Pub/Sub with Consumer Group
14:00 Head of Line blocking in Kafka
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