How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Exploring how a company achieved an 82% improvement in Kafka's producer performance through a file system change, diving into the role of operating systems and kernel knowledge in software engineering. The chapter references Allegro's technical blog on enhancing Kafka's capabilities using eBPF and standard tooling.
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