2 docs tagged with "log-compaction"

A complete guide to Kafka brokers — what they are, how storage works, partition leadership, replication, ISR, KRaft vs ZooKeeper, log compaction, performance internals, and production monitoring. Beginner through senior depth.

How Kafka log compaction preserves the latest value per key, enabling state stores, CDC changelog topics, and materialized views. Covers cleaner internals, tombstones, tiered storage, and KTable integration.