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Sharding, replication & partitioningMediumSDE-2

You keyed a Kafka topic of order events by order_id and created it with 12 partitions. Now consumers cannot keep up and you want 48 partitions. What should you think about?

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

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