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authorLinus Wallgren <linus.wallgren@gmail.com>2017-05-18 22:49:20 +0200
committerDana Powers <dana.powers@gmail.com>2017-06-16 23:26:14 -0700
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>>> for i in range(1000):
... producer.send('foobar', b'msg %d' % i)
+Thread safety
+*************
+
+The KafkaProducer can be used across threads without issue, unlike the
+KafkaConsumer which cannot.
+
+While it is possible to use the KafkaConsumer in a thread-local manner,
+multiprocessing is recommended.
+
Compression
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