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David Gammon commented on KAFKA-15116: -------------------------------------- # The internal store is shared across stream threads. There is a consumer outside of kafka streams that is reading "read_committed" messages that populates the store and unblocks the processor. # In this context I'm talking about eos and the transaction being committed and therefore the consumer being able to read the "read_committed" message. I think ultimately our problem is that the stream thread carries on processing messages during a rebalance but does not complete them (transaction commit). Even though pausing processing during a rebalance probably shouldn't be default behaviour it would be ideal for us if it were configurable. Pausing consumption feels valid especially when there is a dependency between messages with the same partion key? > Kafka Streams processing blocked during rebalance > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-15116 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-15116 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: streams > Affects Versions: 3.5.0 > Reporter: David Gammon > Priority: Major > > We have a Kafka Streams application that simply takes a messages, processes > it and then produces an event out the other side. The complexity is that > there is a requirement that all events with the same partition key must be > committed before the next message is processed. > This works most of the time flawlessly but we have started to see problems > during deployments where the first message blocks the second message during a > rebalance because the first message isn’t committed before the second message > is processed. This ultimately results in transactions timing out and more > rebalancing. > We’ve tried lots of configuration to get the behaviour we require with no > luck. We’ve now put in a temporary fix so that Kafka Streams works with our > framework but it feels like this might be a missing feature or potentially a > bug. > +Example+ > Given: > * We have two messages (InA and InB). > * Both messages have the same partition key. > * A rebalance is in progress so streams is no longer able to commit. > When: > # Message InA -> processor -> OutA (not committed) > # Message InB -> processor -> blocked because #1 has not been committed -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)