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How does Kafka handle fault tolerance and load balancing?

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How does Kafka handle fault tolerance and load balancing?

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  • Replication: leader/follower partitions and the in-sync replica (ISR) set
  • Failover when a broker or partition leader goes down
  • Load balancing via partitions spread across brokers and consumer groups
  • Rebalancing when consumers join or leave
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ISR and leader election
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