Hi, I am planning to use kafka for a work queue type use case with multiple consumers. I also plan to use it with multiple consumer groups. What is not clear to me from the documentation is how to define+manage consumer groups or if that is possible at all. It appears to me that a consumer group is created just by connecting with a new group-id. What is not clear to me is how to manage this: if I no longer want a consumer group how do I remove it? What happens when there are no consumers of a group listening? If all the consumers stop listening how long will Kafka continue to store messages for that group?
Thanks for any clarification, Greg Lloyd
