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So you’re building a Spring Boot Kafka consumer, tweaking those sweet application.properties, and then you drop this gem: spring.kafka.consumer.fetch-min-size=524288000 You’re expecting Kafka to fetch a minimum of 500 MB of data per request. Bold. Ambitious. Legendary. But wait… Spring Boot completely ignores it. Like your gym membership. Let’s decode what’s going on, shall we?
So you’re building a Spring Boot Kafka consumer, tweaking those sweet application.properties, and then you drop this gem:
spring.kafka.consumer.fetch-min-size=524288000
You’re expecting Kafka to fetch a minimum of 500 MB of data per request. Bold. Ambitious. Legendary.
But wait… Spring Boot completely ignores it. Like your gym membership.
Let’s decode what’s going on, shall we?
