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Kafka - Interview Questions
What is a Partition offset?
The offset is a unique identifier of a record within a partition. It denotes the position of the consumer in the partition. Consumers can read messages starting from a specific offset and can read from any offset point they choose.
 
* Partition offset has a unique sequence id called as offset.
* Each partition should have a partition offset. 
 
Topic can also have multiple partition logs like the click-topic has in the image to the right. This allows for multiple consumers to read from a topic in parallel.
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