Additionally, you can't easily increase/decrease consumer counts such that all consumers quickly get assigned roughly equivalent workloads. It will be interest

Additionally, you can't easily increase/decrease consumer counts such that all consumers quickly get assigned roughly equivalent workloads. It will be interesting to watch progress on KIP-932 as the Kafka community thinks about adding message queue behavior: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A+Queues+for+Kafka https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...