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What is a Kafka partition? What is a consumer group?
Tests whether you know a partition is the unit of parallelism and ordering (messages within one partition are strictly ordered), while a consumer group is a set of consumers that split a topic's partitions between them so each message is processed by exactly one consumer in the group.
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