Python kafka consumer group id issue
AFAIK, The concept of partitions and (consumer) groups in kafka was introduced to implement parallelism. I am working with kafka through python. I have a certain topic, which has (say) 2 partitions. This means, if I start a consumer group with 2 consumers in it, they will be mapped(subscribed) to different partitions. But, using kafka library in python, I came across a weird issue. I started 2 consumers with essentially the same group-ids, and started the threads for them to consume messages. But, every message in the kafka-stream is being consumed by both of them !! This seems ridiculous to