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Consumer Groups
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Let's explore the role of consumer groups in Kafka.

What is a consumer group?

A consumer group is basically a set of one or more consumers working together in parallel to consume messages from topic partitions. Messages are equally divided among all the consumers of a group, with no two consumers receiving the same message.

Distributing partitions to consumers within a consumer group

Kafka ensures that only a single consumer reads messages from any partition within a consumer group

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