Very good description with pictures in the book Kafka: The Definitive Guide
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kafka-the-definitive/9781491936153/ch04.html
-hans
> On Mar 26, 2020, at 12:00 PM, sunil chaudhari < sunilmchaudhari05@gmail.com > wrote:
>
> Again....
> A consumer can have one or more consumer thread.
> The analogy of 12 partitions and 4 consumer is true when each consumer has
> 3 consumer threads.
> Please don't skip the important factor "consumer thread" in this matter.
>
> If you run each consumer with threads then you may need max 3 consumers for
> that consumer group.
>
> If you have 12 partitions and you run 4 consumers with 4 consumer threads
> then 4 threads will be idle at any time T1.
>
> I hope this is clear.
>
> Thanks,
> Sunil.
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 7:52 PM, Hans Jespersen < hans@confluent.io > wrote:
>
>>> As per my und...