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Jun 7, 2022 · Backend Development

Improving Kafka Consumer Design: From Poll‑Then‑Process Loop to a Better Model

This article analyzes the shortcomings of the traditional poll‑then‑process loop in Kafka consumers, explains configuration pitfalls such as max.poll.interval.ms, and proposes a more robust architecture using work queues, a poller, an executor, and an offset manager to achieve at‑most‑once, at‑least‑once, and exactly‑once processing guarantees.