private void commitOffsetsForAckedTuples() {
    // Find offsets that are ready to be committed for every topic partition
    final Map<TopicPartition, OffsetAndMetadata> nextCommitOffsets = new HashMap<>();
    for (Map.Entry<TopicPartition, OffsetEntry> tpOffset : acked.entrySet()) {
      final OffsetAndMetadata nextCommitOffset = tpOffset.getValue().findNextCommitOffset();
      if (nextCommitOffset != null) {
        nextCommitOffsets.put(tpOffset.getKey(), nextCommitOffset);
      }
    }

    // Commit offsets that are ready to be committed for every topic partition
    if (!nextCommitOffsets.isEmpty()) {
      kafkaConsumer.commitSync(nextCommitOffsets);
      LOG.debug("Offsets successfully committed to Kafka [{}]", nextCommitOffsets);
      // Instead of iterating again, it would be possible to commit and update the state for each
      // TopicPartition
      // in the prior loop, but the multiple network calls should be more expensive than iterating
      // twice over a small loop
      for (Map.Entry<TopicPartition, OffsetEntry> tpOffset : acked.entrySet()) {
        final OffsetEntry offsetEntry = tpOffset.getValue();
        offsetEntry.commit(nextCommitOffsets.get(tpOffset.getKey()));
      }
    } else {
      LOG.trace("No offsets to commit. {}", this);
    }
  }
  private static void processRecords(KafkaConsumer<String, String> consumer)
      throws InterruptedException {

    while (true) {

      ConsumerRecords<String, String> records = consumer.poll(100);
      long lastOffset = 0;

      for (ConsumerRecord<String, String> record : records) {
        System.out.printf(
            "\n\roffset = %d, key = %s, value = %s", record.offset(), record.key(), record.value());
        lastOffset = record.offset();
      }

      System.out.println("lastOffset read: " + lastOffset);

      process();

      // Below call is important to control the offset commit. Do this call after you
      // finish processing the business process to get the at least once guarantee.

      consumer.commitSync();
    }
  }