scale rabbitmq stream consumption using super streams partitioned across cluster nodes
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Steps
Create a super stream with the rabbitmq-streams add_super_stream command and a partition count, which creates that many individual partition streams under the hood.
Publish using a super-stream-aware client, which routes each message to the correct partition stream based on a routing key or hash.
Consume using the super stream client APIs so consumers get assigned partitions automatically, similar to Kafka-style partition assignment.
Rely on single active consumer semantics per partition to preserve ordering within each partition while still parallelizing across partitions.
Reserve super streams for cases where a single stream's throughput or storage genuinely becomes a bottleneck rather than defaulting to them for all streams.
Known gotchas
Super streams add operational complexity, since there are now N streams to monitor and reason about instead of one; RabbitMQ's own guidance is to use them only after hitting real single-stream limits.
Only client libraries with super stream support handle the partition routing and consumer assignment; consuming a super stream's underlying partitions directly with a non-aware client breaks the abstraction.
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