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How to Partition and Order Kafka-Style Messages by Key in Python

Group messages with the same key into ordered buckets using hashing and a defaultdict, mimicking Kafka partition ordering.

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Python 
from dataclasses import dataclass
from collections import defaultdict

@dataclass
class Message:
    key: str
    content: str

def partition_and_order(messages, num_partitions=3):
    partitions = defaultdict(list)
    for msg in messages:
        partition_id = hash(msg.key) % num_partitions
        partitions[parti…
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