3 KafkaFlow Features Hard to Ignore

If you are a .NET developer working with Apache Kafka, KafkaFlow is a framework worth exploring.

Here, you can find three compelling features that make KafkaFlow stand out and deserve your attention.

1️⃣ Multi-Threaded Consumers

In the typical Apache Kafka infrastructure, you will find topics with multiple partitions. If you observe a lag and need to increase the consumption throughput, you will do it by bringing new consumers into the consumer group. That strategy will work up to a point. The number of partitions works as an upper limit, and having more consumers in a consumer group than the number of partitions is useless. However, traditional single-threaded consumers may result in underutilized infrastructure resources.

KafkaFlow addresses this by offering multi-threading within a single consumer. This feature allows your consumer to delegate work to multiple workers, enabling parallel processing.

If that didn’t catch your attention, let me tell you that even with multiple workers, KafkaFlow maintains message order. And all of that is perfectly encapsulated under a simple configuration.

// KafkaFlow Configuration
services.AddKafka(kafka =>…