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Experiments with Kafka's head-of-line blocking (2023)


Context Kafka is a distributed message system that excels in high throughput architectures with many listeners. However, Kafka is also often used as job queue solution and, in this context, its head-of-line blocking characteristics can lead to increased latency.

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