messages are not deleted or modified once written to a topic, other than by topic retention settings Except if you have log compaction turned on, I guess. A k

messages are not deleted or modified once written to a topic, other than by topic retention settings Except if you have log compaction turned on, I guess. A key "selling point" of Kafka for me is that each consumer can decide from when they wish to receive messages. That is, you can replay the messages.