[KIP-932] Queues for Kafka
A Kafka partition has always been limited to one consumer at a time. That coupled partition count and consumer count tightly together, and scaling throughput often meant splitting a topic into far more partitions than the data itself justified. Plenty of workloads genuinely fit a queue-style model better, where several consumers split the work on one partition, but the old structure had no way to express that. KIP-932: Queues for Kafka removes that constraint with a new group type: the Share Group. ...