The kafka fast connector handles this differently than the standard kafka
client (which requires one consumer per partition at most), by breaking
offsets into consumable ranges which allows one partition to be read by
multiple conumers where each consumer uniquely receives a different offset
Hi
If you have two consumers in your consumer group, but only one partition in the
topic, then only one consumer will do any work. It’s not the case that “those
two nodes start competing for messages” — one node will read from the
partition, the other will have nothing to do. So to scale up by
A single partition can be consumed by at most a single consumer. Consumers
compete to take ownership of a partition. So, in order to gain parallelism
you need to add more partitions.
There is a library that allows multiple consumers to consume from a single
partition
Hello everyone,
I was reading/checking kafka documentation regarding point-2-point and
publish subscribe communications patterns in kafka and I am wondering how
to scale up consumer side in point to point scenario when consuming from
single kafka topic.
Let say I have a single topic with single
