3. Advanced Kafka Questions

20 questions.

• 3.1. How does Kafka achieve high throughput and low latency?
• 3.2. What is the role of ISR (In-Sync Replicas) in Kafka?
• 3.3. How does Kafka handle consumer lag?
• 3.4. What is the difference between Kafka and Apache Pulsar?
• 3.5. How does Kafka handle schema evolution?
• 3.6. What is the role of Kafka in a microservices architecture?
• 3.7. How do you monitor and optimize Kafka performance?
• 3.8. What are Kafka Transactions, and how do they work?
• 3.9. How does Kafka handle backpressure in consumers?
• 3.10. What are the challenges of scaling Kafka clusters?
• 3.11. How does Kafka handle cross-datacenter replication?
• 3.12. What is the role of Kafka’s linger.ms configuration in producers?
• 3.13. How does Kafka handle partition reassignment?
• 3.14. What is the role of Kafka’s auto.offset.reset configuration in consumers?
• 3.15. How does Kafka handle idempotent producers?
• 3.16. What is the role of Kafka’s max.poll.interval.ms configuration in consumers?
• 3.17. How does Kafka handle schema compatibility?
• 3.18. What is the role of Kafka’s min.insync.replicas configuration?
• 3.19. How does Kafka handle consumer group rebalancing?
• 3.20. What is the role of Kafka’s retention.ms configuration?