You have a cluster with a topic t1 that already has uncompressed messages. A new Producer starts sending messages to t1 with compression enabled. Which condition would allow this?

Question

Options

• AIf the new Producer is configured to use compression.
• BNever, because topic t1 already has uncompressed messages.
• COnly if Kafka is also enabled for encryption.
• DOnly if the new Producer disables batching.

• A
  72% (13)
• B
  17% (3)
• C
  6% (1)
• D
  6% (1)

Explanation

Kafka allows mixed compression formats within the same topic and even the same partition. Each message batch includes metadata indicating whether and how it is compressed. Therefore, a new producer can send compressed messages to a topic that already contains uncompressed messages, as long as it is configured with a compression codec (e.g., compression.type=gzip,

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