Danica Fine continues a series on Kafka internals:
Welcome back to the third installment of our blog series where we’re diving into the beautiful black box that is Apache Kafka® to better understand how we interact with the cluster through producer and consumer clients.
Earlier in the series, we took a look at the Kafka producer to see how the client works before following a produce request as it’s processed by the cluster.
In this post, we’ll switch our attention to Kafka Consumer clients to see how consumers interact with the brokers, coordinate their partitions, and send requests to read data from your Kafka topics.
Read on to see what it takes for a consumer to operate in Apache Kafka.