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For what it’s worth, this form of loss wouldn’t be possible under KRaft since they (ironically?) use Raft for the metadata and elections. Ain’t nobody starting a new cluster with Zookeeper these days.
Which numbers? The ones on the blog that shows Redpanda significantly lagging behind open source Kafka?
https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/15/kafka-vs-redpanda...
I had to go to the repo to see the benchmarking setup to get an answer. Looks like 3 Kafka nodes.
https://github.com/Vanlightly/openmessaging-benchmark-custom...
It's pretty ironic considering they blame JVM garbage collection for bad latency, but ignore their own disk garbage collection that also seems to cause some pretty bad latency.