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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2022
Sap SE, Walldorf, DE;
Anbusivam S, Bangalore, IN;
SAP SE, Walldorf, DE;
Abstract
In an example embodiment a mechanism for consumer group versioning is introduced. Here, each application runtime provides a version for any consumer group during its deployment and keeps increasing the version whenever there is an enhancement or bug fix. Thus, both the application and the consumer group will have a version. Once it is recognized that a consumer group assigned to partitions in a topic has an outdated consumer group version number (i.e., a consumer group with the same name/application but a later consumer group version number has been registered with the message broker), the old consumer group is disconnected immediately. This allows the message broker to immediately assign partitions to the consumers in the newer consumer group, thus avoiding the aforementioned delays and associated technical problems.