Adi Polak gives us seven helpful tips to think about before building a Kafka cluster:
2 — You shouldn’t send large messages or payloads through Kafka
According to Apache Kafka, for better throughput, the max message size should be 10KB. If the messages are larger than this, it is better to check the alternatives or find a way to chop the message into smaller parts before writing to Kafka. Best practice to do so is using a message key to make sure all chopped messages will be written to the same partition.
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