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Kafka - Consumer Groups

Which advantage does Kafka consumer groups provide when processing messages from a topic?

AThey guarantee that every consumer reads all messages independently

BThey allow multiple consumers to share the workload by dividing partitions among them

CThey enable consumers to write messages back to the topic

DThey prevent consumers from connecting to the Kafka cluster simultaneously

Step-by-Step Solution

Solution:

Step 1: Understand consumer groups
Consumer groups allow multiple consumers to coordinate and share the processing of topic partitions.
Step 2: Workload distribution
Kafka assigns partitions exclusively to consumers in the group, enabling parallel processing.
Final Answer:
They allow multiple consumers to share the workload by dividing partitions among them -> Option B
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