Does Kafka support request response messaging

Question

I am investigating Kafka 9 as a hobby project and completed a few \"Hello World\" type examples.

I have got to thinking about Real World Kafka applications based on

Answer 1

I never tried that, but in theory, if you before starting any produce, produce some messages keyed with numbers from 0 to number of partitions from answer topic and your producers are already consumers of that topic, so every producer would receive at least one of those messages. So you could store that key on each producer and publish it with the uuid... After the process on the consumer, it can publish the answer (on the answer topic) with the uuid and keyed with that same key sent with it, so it will be got by the same producer that sent it... Once all messages with the same key is published in the same partition...