Kafka Consumer Group is a Brilliant Design Choice and We should Discuss it

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

Om Podcasten

Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr 🧑‍🏫 Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses