WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Nov 30, 2020

How to Benchmark Your Apache Kafka

Kirill Kulikov

Why does setting acks=1 sacrifice durability without actually improving end-to-end latency? Uncover the true configuration trade-offs needed to benchmark and optimize your Apache Kafka clusters.

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