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·4 min·Apache Kafka, Distributed Systems, System Design, Backend Engineering, OS Internals
Stop Using Kafka Like RabbitMQ, The Zero-Copy Hardware Hack
Treating Kafka like a traditional message queue is the quickest way to ruin your throughput. Here is the low-level hardware hack and log architecture that makes Kafka process millions of events per second.