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Messaging & event-driven designMediumSDE-2

How many partitions would you create for a Kafka topic that receives 50,000 messages per second at peak, about 1 KB each? Show your reasoning.

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Design a distributed message queue (like Kafka) Lesson: Kafka: partitions, consumer groups and ordering

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