Status

Current state: ApprovedUnder Discussion

Discussion thread: here

JIRA: KAFKA-7358 3333 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 to 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 loop-back to the sender), or log some information. We have the following use case for messaging:

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