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