Understanding Kafka Architecture

In this section

• Kafka Clusters and Brokers
  Understand Kafka brokers, controller roles, cluster configuration, deployment topology, and KRaft-era management.
• Kafka Topics, Partitions, and Replication
  Design Kafka topics, partitions, replicas, leaders, and retention policies for scalability, ordering, and durability.
• Producers and Consumers Internals in Apache Kafka
  Examine Kafka producer and consumer internals across batching, fetch loops, rebalancing, offsets, and tuning controls.
• Kafka Storage Layer
  Learn how Kafka stores records with segments, retention, compaction, indexing, zero-copy transfer, and disk trade-offs.
• Networking and Protocols in Apache Kafka
  Understand Kafka networking, listeners, client-broker protocol behavior, encryption, authentication, and cross-network access.