Kafka uses a thread pool for request processing. Both the brokers and the consumer clients use the same request processing loop. This goes a bit more in-depth:

Kafka uses a thread pool for request processing. Both the brokers and the consumer clients use the same request processing loop. This goes a bit more in-depth: https://jaceklaskowski.gitbooks.io/apache-kafka/content/kafka-server-KafkaServer.html https://jaceklaskowski.gitbooks.io/apache-kafka/content/kafk...