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JIRA: KAFKA-4501-Extended 7358 Alternative Partitioner to Support "Always Round-Robin" Selection
Motivation
In my organisation, we have been using kafka as the basic publish-subscribe messaging system provider. Our goal is the send event-based (secure, encrypted) SQL messages reliably, and process them accordingly. For us, the message keys represent some metadata which we use to either ignore messages (if a loopback to the sender), or log some information. We have the following use case for messaging:
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