Jens,
Sorry, I'm very late to this thread but figure it might be worth following
up since I think this is a cool feature of the new consumer but isn't well
known. You actually have *quite* a bit of flexibility in controlling how
partition assignment happens. The key hook is the
partition.assignmen
Hi Stevo,
Thank you for your response. Yes, I understand there can only be one active
consumer per partition and I understand that partitions should be spread
evenly. However, there will almost always be cases when they are somewhat
unbalanced.
That said, how consumers are distributed among parti
Hello Jens,
By design there can be only one active consumer per consumer group per
partion at a time, only one thread after being assigned (acquiring a lock)
moves the offset for consumer group for partition, so no concurrency
problems. Typically that assignment lasts long until rebalancing gets
t
