Kafka with Raft in Production: A New Era for Distributed Commit Logs
summary
Practical account of running Apache Kafka with KRaft (Kafka’s Raft-based consensus that replaces ZooKeeper) in production: benefits, pitfalls, migration options and concrete operational feedback after several months in real environments. Targets developers, SREs and architects and aims to give a clear, pragmatic view to decide when and how to adopt Kafka with Raft.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:53Distributed systems challenges
- 13:45Consensus problem and Paxos
- 22:44Paxos limits and Raft
- 32:11Zookeeper issues in Kafka
- 43:23KIP 500 and Kafka Raft
- 59:34Kafka Raft architecture
- 1:11:17Kafka Raft advantages
- 1:27:08Migration best practices
- 1:30:43Live migration demo
- 1:52:34Migration antipatterns
- 2:00:05Production checklist
