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PROFESSIONAL-DATA-ENGINEER · Question #238
Your company is selecting a system to centralize data ingestion and delivery. You are considering messaging and data integration systems to address the requirements. The key requirements are: The…
The correct answer is A. Apache Kafka. Explanation/Reference: These are the functionalities which are currently lagging/not-available with Pub/Sub.
Submitted by ngozi_ng· Mar 30, 2026Designing data processing systems
Question
Your company is selecting a system to centralize data ingestion and delivery. You are considering messaging and data integration systems to address the requirements. The key requirements are: The ability to seek to a particular offset in a topic, possibly back to the start of all data ever captured Support for publish/subscribe semantics on hundreds of topics Retain per-key ordering Which system should you choose?
Options
- AApache Kafka
- BCloud Storage
- CCloud Pub/Sub
- DFirebase Cloud Messaging
How the community answered
(44 responses)- A80% (35)
- B2% (1)
- C5% (2)
- D14% (6)
Explanation
Explanation/Reference: These are the functionalities which are currently lagging/not-available with Pub/Sub.
Topics
#Apache Kafka#offset management#pub/sub semantics#per-key ordering
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