2 docs tagged with "partition"

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.

A **partition** is an ordered, immutable sequence of records (a log) within a topic. Each partition lives on exactly one broker at a time (as leader) and.