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 Kafka synthetic test application to measure round trip time.
 
-**Because the message only contains the produce timestamp (Unix epoch), latency will be greater than a real Kafka use case**
+**Because the messages only contains the produce timestamp (Unix epoch), latency will be greater than a real Kafka use case**
 
 ## Build