Always process the freshest record when ordered by key

[mert-kirpici]

Hello, I have a use case where I need to process each key sequentially however when processing a record, if new records arrive for that key, I would like to skip over the ones that have already arrives and process the latest one next.

I tried to read and understand the documentation but I believe currently the library does not support this kind of behavior. Am I wrong? If not, is there a not so hacky way to achieve this?

[lutzh]

You say the

currently the library does not support this kind of behavior

Honest question: With Kafka, can you achieve this with any other consumer library?

My thinking is: It's quite fundamental that the consumer sees the records in the order they appear in the log. So this sounds not so much like a feature request for this library, but a very fundamental request for Kafka itself. That's just my two cents, of course.