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6 questions in Event Streaming.

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A downstream consumer has been failing for four days. Your event log retains three days. What happens?

A platform processes billions of events per day and requires ordering per customer but not globally. How should partition keys and consumer groups deliver that without creating a serialisation bottleneck?

A ride-hailing platform must process billions of location and trip events per day, with per-trip ordering. Design the partitioning, consumer scaling and failure handling.

Consumer lag on a Kafka topic grows during peak and does not recover overnight. You add consumers and nothing improves. Why?

Design the event ingestion path for a recommendation platform receiving billions of interaction events daily, where the same events must feed real-time personalisation and offline model training. How should the pipeline be structured?

You have 14 systems exchanging data through bespoke point-to-point pipelines. Adding a system means building integrations to six others. Propose an alternative.