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Kafka Consumer Testing
20.1🔒The Five Areas of Kafka Consumer TestingKafka consumer testing must cover five areas:
20.2🔒Basic Event Processing
20.3🔒Idempotency TestingAt-least-once delivery means consumers may receive the same event multiple times. Tests must verify idempotent processing.
20.4🔒Malformed Event Handling
20.5🔒Ordering Tests
20.6🔒Dead Letter Queue Testing
20.7🔒Key Takeaways- Five areas must be covered: basic processing, idempotency, malformed events, ordering, and dead letter queues - Idempotency should be…
20.8🔒ExercisesExercise 20.1 (Starter): Set up a Kafka container using Testcontainers and write a basic event processing test.
20.9🔒Career Translation- Built comprehensive Kafka consumer test suites covering 5 testing areas: basic event processing, idempotency (business-key level)…
20.10🔒Q&AInterview Depth CheckPrompt: What is the difference between event-ID idempotency and business-key idempotency? Why does it matter? What a strong answer should…