How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Investigation and Optimization of Apache Kafka's File System for Performance Enhancement
Exploration of investigating and resolving a performance slowdown in the Apache Kafka system by analyzing the binary protocol, tracing kernel calls, and addressing locking issues in the ext4 file system leading to a significant performance boost by switching to XFS.
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