I was following the book "Kafka: The Definitive Guide" First Edition to understand when log segments are deleted by the broker. As per the text I understood, a segment will not become eli...

I am new to kafka and when I read the Kafka doc, I realize that messages provided with the same key will be mapped to the same partition to guarantee the order. This totally makes sense. However, I...

Are kafka leaders partitions themselves or are they brokers? My initial understanding was that they were partitions which acted as read/write agents which then deffered their value to ISRs. Howeve...

I am using kafka_2.12 version 2.3.0 where I am publishing data into kafka topic using partition and key. I need to find a way using which I can consume a particular message from topic using key and...