Kafka Broker — Complete Guide
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.
Kafka Cleanup Policy & Log Compaction: Delete, Compact & Dual Retention Deep Dive
Principal engineering guide to Kafka cleanup.policy (delete, compact, compact,delete), broker vs topic configs, SkimpyOffsetMap cleaner internals, tombstone resurrection, and production gotchas.
