Java Consumer Seek and Assign

The video tutorial explains the use of the assign and seek APIs in Kafka. It demonstrates how to create a consumer without a group ID, assign it to a specific topic partition, and seek a specific offset. The tutorial includes setting up a loop with exit conditions to read a defined number of messages. It concludes by highlighting the less frequent use of these APIs compared to the subscribe method, but emphasizes their importance for replaying data.

What conditions are set to exit the while loop in the consumer application?

Summarize the key differences between using assign and seek versus subscribe and group ID in consumer applications.