Artem Livshits

I'm not sure if the fix addresses the following scenario: - producer got a timeout (and there is a delayed produce that got stuck) - producer crashes before having an...

I think it's still a choice between breaking old default sticky partitioner logic vs. not fixing even older round robin partitioner logic (which has been broken for a few years)...

True, using a separate thread pool has its value. Generally, a separate thread pool is used when the patterns are significantly different, e.g. threads that use only compute vs. threads...