This document provides a beginner's guide to balancing data across Apache Kafka partitions. It discusses optimizing producers by configuring parameters like acknowledgements, batch size, linger time, compression and record ordering. It also discusses optimizing consumers by configuring fetch size and number of partitions/consumers. The document recommends planning data partitioning in advance based on cardinality and ordering, and using custom partitioners. It suggests monitoring metrics like consumer lag and latency to identify issues.
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