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Causes and remedies of poison pill in Apache Kafka

Causes and remedies of poison pill in Apache Kafka

A poison pill is a message deliberately sent to a Kafka topic, designed to consistently fail when consumed, regardless of the number of consumption attempts. Poison Pill scenarios are frequently underestimated and can arise if not properly accounted for. Neglecting to address them can result in severe disruptions to the seamless operation of an event-driven system. The poison pill for various reasons: The failure of deserialization of the consumed bytes from the Kafka topic on the consumer side. Incompatible serializer and deserializer...

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