Daniel Schierbeck

@zachmargolis will do – I hope to start work on a Consumer implementation in the next few weeks, but it's much more complex than producing.

@zachmargolis ruby-kafka now implements the Kafka 0.9 Consumer Groups API: https://github.com/zendesk/ruby-kafka#consuming-messages-from-kafka

Any updates on this? I've found myself wanting this syntax quite a lot. Furthermore, I think there's a detail that could make it even nicer: having the `null` value have...

Would this _replace_ the existing parallel workers setup? If not, why have two?

Probably up to the owning team, but it should at least be documented that they're two implementations of the same feature, one of them experimental (for now).

I'm not sure it provides enough value as it stands – with copy-on-write, the forking approach seems better if we're using separate consumer instances anyway. I think the shared-main-loop approach...

Good to be back! 😄 I'm not sure if there's an intermediary, non-breaking change – you could push this to the next breaking change if you'd like. Perhaps do a...

Sounds great! I'm happy to wait until late 2023. > Also, slightly off topic, but just to pick your brain @dasch... > > Users often (mis)use the `service_name` on these...

Yeah, I think `component` would make sense. Is that something that's being leveraged today in the UI?

Not that I can think of. What's component used for currently, btw?