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Funny you mention that, because Kafka consumers actually pull messages.
by ahoka 11mo ago
Funny you mention that, because Kafka consumers actually pull messages.
- politelemon 11mo agoWhat is the reason for using Kafka then, sorry if I'm missing something fundamental.
- pram 11mo agoA Kafka consumer does a lot of work coordinating distributed clients in a group, managing the current offset, balancing the readers across partitions, etc which is native broker functionality. Saying you can replace it all with a simple JDBC client or something isn't true (if you need that stuff!)
- ycombinatrix 11mo agoNot by busy waiting in a loop on a database query though.