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What triggers a Kafka consumer group rebalance, and how do you minimize the disruption using cooperative rebalancing or static membership?

Tests whether you know modern Kafka has real tools to avoid the classic stop-the-world rebalance pain.

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What triggers a Kafka consumer group rebalance, and how do you minimize the disruption using cooperative rebalancing or static membership?

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