Why do some people recommend breaking large messages into many smaller ones?

Why do some people so strongly recommend cutting large messages into many small messages, as opposed to changing max.message.bytes? For example, Stéphane Maarek at https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-send-Large-messages-80-MB-in-Kafkam, says "Kafka isn’t meant to handle large messages and that’s why th

maximum lag between current offset, and last commit

I liked this article: https://blog.newrelic.com/engineering/kafka-consumer-config-auto-commit-data-loss/ I particularly like the illustration in the article: http://newrelic-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/offset_explained2.jpg What is the maximum difference between the current offset i

Re: maximum lag between current offset, and last commit

offset, and last confirmed offset. Regards, Clark On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:55 AM Clark Sims wrote: > > I liked this article: > https://blog.newrelic.com/engineering/kafka-consumer-config-auto-commit-data-loss/ > I particularly like the illustration in the article: >

Fwd: unsubscribe

...@kafka.apache.org. I think there is a bug in ther server. It isn't working for me. Thanks, Clark -- Forwarded message - From: Clark Sims Date: Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 1:03 PM Subject: unsubscribe To: unsubscribe