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all right and similarly when we start the third consumer and provide the same group ID then the same consumer group would now have three consumers okay so all of these consumers belong to the same group with Ida and it forms a consumer group now what is the benefit of this consumer group the benefit of this consumer group is let's say if you have the same number of consumers in the group basically the number which is same as the number of partitions then what Kafka will do it will basically allocate a certain partition to a single consumer so what that means is p 0 will be assigned to this consumer P1 to this consumer that essentially means now we can read the data in parallel as well because we have dedicated consumers to read the events from those partitions so instead of a single consumer which is reading events from all the partitions we now have dedicated consumers so we are able to scale the read part as well now there is one important thing that