intermediateKafka: Producer, Consumer & Idempotency
You have 10 consumers in a group but only 3 Kafka partitions. How many consumers actually process messages?
Tests whether you know partition count is a hard ceiling on consumer parallelism within a group — the extra 7 sit idle.
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You have 10 consumers in a group but only 3 Kafka partitions. How many consumers actually process messages?