Consume
Verb · Development
Definitions
To read and process messages from a queue or stream, or to call and use an API endpoint. A consumer pulls data from sources like Kafka topics, RabbitMQ queues, or REST APIs for processing.
In plain English: To receive and use data from a service, queue, or API, like picking up packages from a conveyor belt and unpacking them.
Example: "Our service consumes events from the Kafka topic and writes them to the analytics database."
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