> A very clever person then decided that readers should not be allowed to place bookmarks inside the book, and must instead write down the page they are up to o

> A very clever person then decided that readers should not be allowed to place bookmarks inside the book, and must instead write down the page they are up to on their diary. > This is the design of Apache Kafka, and it is a very resilient design This is confusing. Kafka used to store consumer offsets in Zookeeper and now it stores them in a dedicated consumer offsets topic.