How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Optimizing Performance in Apache Kafka
This chapter explores the challenges and solutions in optimizing performance in Apache Kafka. It discusses the process of publishing data to a broker and the issues related to writing to the broker, emphasizing latency and lack of transparency. The chapter also highlights the importance of capturing request and response data for monitoring and tracing capabilities, as well as analyzing slow requests in Kafka through file system write call tracing.
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