# Horizontally scaling Kafka consumers with rendezvous hashing

DevFeed: [Horizontally scaling Kafka consumers with rendezvous hashing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/horizontally-scaling-kafka-consumers-with-rendezvous-hashing-18546.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/kafka-horizontal-scaling>)

Author: David Manzanares

Published: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>)

Tags: [engineering-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-excellence.md>), [hashing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hashing.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [patterns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patterns.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses using rendezvous hashing to horizontally scale Kafka consumers while keeping throughput high as partitions become bottlenecks.

## Source excerpt

Kafka horizontal scaling sounds straightforward until partitions become bottlenecks. These patterns keep throughput high as you grow.