Register for Apache Kafka®, Confluent, and the Data Mesh
Kafka organizes data as immutable append-only logs at its core, and relied on external consensus services (a.k.a. Zookeeper) to manage the metadata --- such as topic-level configs, leader replicas and ISR information, received admin requests --- of these logs. In this talk, I will discuss a recent core initiative, that migrates the management of such metadata from external services into Kafka as its own special logs. More specifically, I will cover the following: