Post-Quantum Cryptography in Confluent Cloud

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Introduces Queues for Kafka, a new capability built on KIP-932, enabling queue semantics within Kafka. This includes the share consumer API and share groups, allowing multiple consumers to process messages from the same topic elastically, independent of partition count. It implements per-message acknowledgment, release, rejection, and lock renewal mechanisms. The post details the infrastructure consolidation benefits, elastic scaling advantages, per-message processing controls, and Kafka's durability guarantees. It also provides code examples for both implicit and explicit acknowledgment modes of the KafkaShareConsumer and discusses its availability and management on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform.