Medium-Easy Understand Message Queues Multiple Choice

In Kafka, what determines which partition a message is sent to when using a key?

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Answer Options

A Random assignment

B Hash of the key modulo number of partitions

C Least-loaded partition

D Round-robin across partitions

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