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EdwardDiegotoday at 12:40 PM1 replyview on HN

> It's the very architecture of Kafka itself due to the notorious head of line problem

Except a consumer can discard an unprocessable record? I'm not certain I understand how HOL applies to Kafka, but keen to learn more :)


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thinkharderdevtoday at 4:04 PM

> Except a consumer can discard an unprocessable record?

It's not the unproccessable records that are the problem it is the records that are very slow to process (for whatever reason).