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Hands On Kafka · Sep 17, 2026

Lesson 61: Interactive Queries — The Scatter-Gather RPC Layer

Module 5: Interactive Queries & RPC Goal: Allow the frontend to query “Where are all the drivers in this H3 cell?” across the distributed Kafka Streams cluster — without scanning every partition from

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