Questions
Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:
- In the producer-consumer pattern, is both a producer and consumer required for the pattern to work?
- Are there obstacles to learning or adopting the producer-consumer pattern for software engineers? If so, what are some examples?
- What are the benefits of using minimal APIs in .NET 7? What are the drawbacks?
- Which is the primary library used to facilitate the use of Kafka in the example code?
- Which base class is used to construct the producer and consumer service classes?
- Can configuration files such as
appsettings.jsonbe used to configure complex objects such asProducerConfigandConsumerConfig? - Is it generally a good idea to create topics with multiple partitions? Why or why not?
- What's the difference between a stream and a table in Kafka?
