Consumers and Consumer Groups

The video tutorial explains the role of consumers in reading data from topics, highlighting how data is read in order within partitions. It introduces consumer groups, which allow multiple consumers to read data in parallel, and discusses how to manage multiple consumers, including handling inactive consumers. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of choosing the right number of partitions to match the number of consumers.

How do consumers coordinate to read from partitions?

Describe the implications of having more consumers than partitions.