(Part 3/4): Confluent Cloud (Managed Kafka as a Service) — Create a Go client to consume messages
In this podcast episode, the host continues from the previous episodes in the Confluent Cloud series and focuses on consuming messages. The consumer code is reviewed, and the concept of group ID is explained. The process of initializing the consumer and subscribing to topics is demonstrated. The use of channels in Go for message consumption is explored. The host troubleshoots issues related to group ID and discusses the inconsistencies observed. The allocation of messages among multiple consumers with different group IDs is examined. The episode concludes with a summary of the learnings and an invitation to explore Snowpal’s products and APIs.
Takeaways
- Consuming messages in Confluent Cloud involves initializing the consumer and subscribing to topics.
- The group ID determines which consumers belong to which group and affects work sharing and fault tolerance.
- Messages can be consumed using channels in Go, allowing for continuous listening and processing.
- Troubleshooting issues with group ID and understanding message allocation among multiple consumers is important.
- Snowpal offers a range of products and APIs for software development and architecture.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Recap
00:31 Starting to Consume Messages
01:44 Consumer Code Overview
03:08 Consumer Group ID04:04Initializing the Consumer
04:32 Consuming Messages with Channels
05:00 Publishing Messages and Consuming
06:25 Group ID and Offset
07:07 Troubleshooting Group ID08:29Group ID and Producer
09:12 Inconsistencies and Debugging
10:24 Cluster Settings and Group ID
11:08 Cluster and Topic Configuration
12:24 Consumer Group ID and Partitions
13:22 Consumer Group ID and Message Filtering
16:29 Consumer Group ID and Work Sharing
17:49 Producer and Consumer Group ID
18:35 Multiple Consumers and Group ID
19:54 Multiple Consumers with Different Group IDs
20:50 Consuming Messages with Multiple Consumers
22:07 Parallelism and Message Distribution
23:52 Consumer Group ID and Message Allocation
26:30 Consumer Group ID and Message Allocation (Continued)
28:30 Consumer Group ID and Message Allocation (Continued)
30:03 Consumer Group ID and Message Allocation (Continued)
35:45 Conclusion
Podcast
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