So I just realized that when creating multiple partitions for a topic, it is the responsibility of the producer and the consumer to decide where to put data.
So if I am a consumer, how do I know what partition to read data from? What if the producer only put data in 1 partition out of 50. And so there isn't any order, here, right? Only order per partition, but there is no concept of consuming messages in the order they were produced, correct? Thanks. Just struggling on the practical aspects now that I've moved past some of the administration tasks.