When Everything Went Kafka: Apache Kafka and the Consumer
summary
Explains the internals and operation of Apache Kafka consumers, examining the KIPs (Kafka Improvement Proposals) that significantly changed consumer behavior and showing how Kafka and consumer configuration options affect behavior. Includes concrete discussion of consumer settings and their impact.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:38Apache Kafka evolution
- 7:04Data replication and reads
- 15:39Consumer architecture
- 26:27Consumer groups and balancing
- 37:10Balancing algorithms
- 41:21Processing and commits
- 44:50Performance optimization
- 50:30Zero-copy and caching
- 51:14Q&A
