Apache Kafka·Apache Kafka essentials

Producers

Producers append events with a key that chooses the partition.

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  • Keys map to partitions.
  • Acks control durability.
  • Idempotence avoids duplicates.

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Producers append events with a key that chooses the partition.

  • Keys map to partitions.
  • Acks control durability.
  • Idempotence avoids duplicates.
Producer.javaJava
producer.send(new ProducerRecord<>("lessons", "css", "{\"minutes\":18}"));
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