Consumer Groups
How Rafka consumer groups work: cgp_<ULID> entity identity, in-memory offsets (P3.A), the single-member protocol, and what changes in P3.B.
How Rafka consumer groups work: cgp_<ULID> entity identity, in-memory offsets (P3.A), the single-member protocol, and what changes in P3.B.
Use confluent-kafka Consumer groups to subscribe to topics, consume records, and resume from a committed offset across client sessions.
Broker GroupCoordinator internals: state machine, KafkaOp 0x06-0x0B, FindCoordinator gateway-local, rebalance oneshot, offset key shape, and error-code table.