PithorAcademy Presents: Deep Dive

S7E9 | Apache Kafka Consumers Explained: Polling, Offsets, Commit & Consumer Groups for Beginners


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In this episode of PithorAcademy Presents: Deep Dive, we dive into Kafka Consumers—the components responsible for reading and processing data from Kafka topics. Without consumers, Kafka is just storage; consumers bring data to life.

We cover:

  • Polling Model – how consumers fetch records from Kafka

  • Offsets as Bookmarks – tracking position in a topic

  • Consumer Basics – how groups enable scalability and fault tolerance

  • Commit Offsets – ensuring data isn’t lost or reprocessed unnecessarily

By the end, you’ll understand how consumers enable real-time data processing, analytics, and microservices, making Kafka the backbone of event-driven systems at companies like Netflix, Uber, and LinkedIn.

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