Scaling a Kafka Consumer From 4K to 25K Events per Second While Preserving Ordering

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Opublikowano: 2026-09-02

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/scaling-a-kafka-consumer-from-4k-to-25k-events-per-second-while-preserving-ordering. A production redesign using batching, safe offset commits, and record-level fallback raised Kafka consumer throughput from 4K to 25K without adding partitions. Check more stories related to data-science at: https://hackernoon.com/c/data-science. You can also check exclusive content about #apache-kafka, #software-architecture, #distributed-systems, #software-development, #scalability, #performance-optimization, #kafka-consumer, #event-streaming, and more. This story was written by: @manjushaguntur. Learn more about this writer by checking @manjushaguntur's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. A Kafka consumer processing 4,000...