What you’ll learn
- Consumer delivery semantics and reliability guarantees
- Poll behavior and internal thread management
- Offset reset strategies and recovery scenarios
- Geographic optimization with closest replica reading
- Incremental rebalancing and static group membership
- Performance tuning and operational best practices
Topics covered
- Delivery semantics: At-most-once, at-least-once, and exactly-once delivery
- Consumer important settings: Poll behavior and internal threads
- Auto offset reset: Offset reset behavior and strategies
- Closest replica: Reading from geographically closest replicas
- Incremental rebalance: Cooperative rebalancing and static membership