Paul Brebner continues a series on Kafka consumers:
In Part 1 of this series, we had a look at Kafka concurrency and throughput work, recapped some earlier approaches I used to improve Kafka performance, and introduced the Kafka Parallel Consumer and supported ordering options (Partition, Key, and Unordered). In this second part we continue our investigations with some example code, a trace of a “slow consumer” example, how to achieve 1 million TPS in theory, some experimental results, what else do we know about the Kafka Parallel Consumer, and finally, if you should use it in production.
Read on to see what Paul has to say about the topic.