If you have studied the docs yet, you should, as this is a broad question which
needs background to understand the answer.
But in summary, the high-level Consumer does more for you, and importantly,
provides balancing between Consumers. The SimpleConsumer does less for you, but
gives you more c
Either use the SimpleConsumer which gives you much finer-grained control, or
(this worked with 0.7) spin up a ConsumerConnection (this is a HighLevel
consumer concept) per partition, turn off auto-commit.
Philip
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