Understanding Kafka Topics and Partitions
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Before answering the questions, let's look at an overview of producer components:
When a producer is producing a message, it will specify the topic it wants to send the message to. Is that right? Does it care about partitions?
The producer will decide target partition to place any message, depending on:
Partition id, if it's specified within the message
key % num partitions , if no partition id is mentioned
Round robin if neither partition id nor message key is available in the message means only the value is available
When a subscriber is running - Does it specify its group id so that it can be part of a cluster of consumers of the same topic or several topics that this group of consumers is interested in?
You should always configure group.id unless you are using the simple assignment API and you don’t need to store offsets in Kafka. It will not be a part of any group. Source .
Does each consumer group have a corresponding partition on the broker or does each consumer have one?
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