AI engineering glossary · Data engineering
What is consumer group?
Consumer group: A set of consumer instances that share the work of reading a topic, with each partition assigned to only one member of the group at a time. Different groups each receive the full stream independently.
Consumer group: an example
Three instances in one group split 12 partitions, four each, while a separate analytics group reads all messages again.
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Where you learn it
Consumer group is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.