Benchmarking Apache Kafka Consumer Groups vs Share Groups (overhead test)

In my last blog post I introduced Dimster (DIMensional teSTER), a performance benchmarking tool for Apache Kafka with a specific set of philosophies. In this first share group benchmarking post, we’re going to use share groups as they are not intended to be used, but for a good reason. Share groups allow you to move past partitions as the unit of parallelism by allowing multiple consumers to read…