Advanced topics
Learn about advanced topic configurations, internals, and optimization strategies:- Topic configuration management
- Segments and indexes
- Log retention and compaction
- Replication and partitioning strategies
Advanced producers
Master producer performance, reliability, and advanced configurations:- Acknowledgment settings explained
- Retry mechanisms and idempotency
- Compression and batching
- Partitioning strategies
Advanced consumers
Understand consumer behavior, delivery semantics, and optimization:- Auto offset reset behavior
- Delivery semantics (at-most-once, at-least-once, exactly-once)
- Consumer poll and internal threads
- Incremental rebalance and static group membership
- Reading from closest replica