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# [Kafka Hot-Key Partition Skew: Mitigating Consumer Starvation with Synthetic Key Salting](https://mainstay.hashnode.dev/kafka-hot-key-partition-skew-mitigating-consumer-starvation-with-synthetic-key-salting?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

In Apache Kafka architectures, data ordering is guaranteed only at the partition level

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