What is the risk of retrying a poison message forever?
Practice this question from Quiz: Kafka Consumer Design and Reliability, with options and an explanation.
Question
What is the risk of retrying a poison message forever?
Option A — Correct answer
It can block progress for that partition
Option B
It improves throughput
Option C
It removes duplicates
Option D
It guarantees exactly-once
Explanation
Unbounded retries can stall a partition.