How to run multiple kafka consumers on the same box independent of each other?

Question

I have two Kafka consumer ConsumerA and ConsumerB. I want to run these two kafka consumers independent of each other on the same machine. There is

Answer 1

A quick suggestion, apologies if you know about it already. Class level variables are never thread safe. If you need to have a different Properties object for every thread, better declare them at the method level and provide them as parameter to other methods where you need to access Properties object.