How does Kafka handle fault tolerance and load balancing?
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Question
How does Kafka handle fault tolerance and load balancing?
Discussion points
- 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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