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What happens during Kafka consumer group "rebalancing"?
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The correct answer is A) Partition ownership is reassigned among consumers in the group (e.g., when a consumer joins, leaves, or fails), which can briefly pause processing
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Correct Answer
Partition ownership is reassigned among consumers in the group (e.g., when a consumer joins, leaves, or fails), which can briefly pause processing
Explanation
Rebalancing redistributes partitions across active consumers in a group to maintain parallel processing, but can cause brief processing pauses ("stop-the-world" in older protocols).
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