Consumers and Queues

Consumers turn the log into work: they pull records, keep their place with committed offsets, and share partitions through consumer groups. Kafka 4 129 replaced the old rebalance protocol and added share groups, true queues on top of topics. The examples read the 390,737 order events written in Producing Order Events.

Subsections

• The Consumer API
• Consumer Groups
• Committing Offsets
• Eager Rebalancing
• The New Protocol (KIP-848)
• Cooperative Rebalancing
• Static Membership
• Consuming for Analytics
• Why Queues (KIP-932)
• Share Groups
• Queues for Kafka Status
• Consumer or Share Groups?