What do you understand about a consumer group in Kafka?

1.	What do you understand about a consumer group in Kafka?
Answer» A consumer GROUP in Kafka is a collection of consumers who WORK together to ingest data from the same TOPIC or range of topics. The name of an application is ESSENTIALLY represented by a consumer group. Consumers in Kafka often fall into one of several categories. The ‘-group' command must be used to CONSUME messages from a consumer group.

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