How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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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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