Level 2: Data · L2.8 Batch, streaming & change data capture
Ordering, partition keys and consumer scaling
Choose partition keys that keep needed order and allow parallelism.
12 min · Pro
What you take away
- Order exists only within a partition, so the partition key must be the entity whose order matters.
And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.
How the class is laid out
- The problem
- The simple version
- Ordering against parallelism
- What changing the partition count does
- Check your understanding