2. Intermediate Kafka Questions

20 questions.

• 2.1. How does Kafka ensure fault tolerance and high availability?
• 2.2. What is the significance of offsets in Kafka?
• 2.3. How does Kafka handle message retention?
• 2.4. What is the difference between a Kafka Topic and a Partition?
• 2.5. What is the role of a Kafka Leader and Followers in a Partition?
• 2.6. How does Kafka ensure message ordering?
• 2.7. What is the difference between Kafka and traditional messaging systems like RabbitMQ?
• 2.8. What is a Kafka Log and how does it work?
• 2.9. How does Kafka handle data replication?
• 2.10. What is the difference between a Kafka Consumer and a Kafka Stream?
• 2.11. How does Kafka handle message compression?
• 2.12. What is the role of a Kafka Controller?
• 2.13. How does Kafka handle unclean leader elections?
• 2.14. What is the difference between Kafka and Apache Spark Streaming?
• 2.15. How does Kafka handle data serialization and deserialization?
• 2.16. What is the role of Kafka ACLs (Access Control Lists)?
• 2.17. How does Kafka handle consumer rebalancing?
• 2.18. What is the difference between Kafka and Amazon Kinesis?
• 2.19. How does Kafka handle message batching?
• 2.20. What is the role of Kafka’s acks configuration in producers?