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When all messages from a producer are sent to the same partition in a distributed messaging system like Kafka, it results in a hot shard problem (or hot partition problem). How to resolve such issues

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Shashank Mishra
Jan 2
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When all messages from a producer are sent to the same partition in a distributed messaging system like Kafka, it results in a hot shard problem (or hot partition problem). How to resolve such issues

This occurs when one partition (or shard) receives a disproportionately high volume of messages compared to others. Such an imbalance can lead to below issues

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