Consumers are applications that “consume” records from a particular topic and partition^[1]. Typically, a consumer will perform actions based on the events it receives, such as sending a notification or updating a database. There may be many consumers reading data from a particular partition at any given time: since the records are persisted, they do not expire after being consumed.

-> [1] For an overview of Topics and Partitions, see the [Topic documentation] [Topic documentation]: /docs/concepts/topics/

In order to get started with consuming streaming data, you’ll need to:

• Follow the “Start Producing” steps to produce data to a topic
• Choose one of the following consumer interfaces to use:
  • Fluvio CLI
  • Rust
  • Node
  • Python
  • Java