Kafka Consumers on EKS: Designing for a Platform That Restarts Your Consumer Group

These are failure modes that actually page you — and the boring fixes that stop them. A Kafka consumer is a stateful client built on a membership protocol. It joins a group, accepts a partition assignment, processes records in order, and proves it is still alive on a fixed cadence of heartbeats and poll calls. Every guarantee the group offers —... Weiterlesen: Kafka Consumers on EKS: Designing for a Platform That Restarts Your C…