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Ask Confluent #6: Kafka, Partitions, and Exactly Once ft. Jason Gustafson

Confluent Developer ft. Tim Berglund, Adi Polak & Viktor Gamov

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The Pros and Cons of Using Exactly One's for Everything

Kafka has thousands of partitions. You don't need that level of parallelism for some use cases, he says. If combining them allows you to get more out of a single partition, you should absolutely do so,. He also talks about exactly one's feature and its pros and cons for using it. "Nothing comes for free"

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