Explain Kafka Reliability and Offset Recovery
Company: Illumio
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This question evaluates understanding of distributed messaging and event-processing concepts, specifically partitioning effects on ordering, parallelism and scalability, delivery semantics like at-least-once, offset management and recovery, fault tolerance, and operational tuning for throughput and reliability.
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