Francesco Tisiot calls us to order:
One of Apache Kafka’s most known mantras is “it preserves the message ordering per topic-partition,” but is it always true? In this blog post, we’ll analyze a few real scenarios where accepting the dogma without questioning it could result in unexpected and erroneous sequences of messages.
Click through for a dive into what can go wrong with ordering. The good news is, in most cases, exact ordering isn’t critical. For cases in which it is critical, you’re trading off reduced throughput for increased order integrity.