July 13, 2026
Partition count caps your parallelism and is painful to change on a keyed topic. A worksheet method: measure per-partition throughput, size for peak plus replay headroom, check key skew.
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KRaft is the only controller quorum in Kafka 4.x. A field checklist for the migration: pre-flight inventory, the dual-write sequence, the finalization decision, and what to monitor after.
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Rebalance storms, auto-commit data loss, lag measured in the wrong unit: the recurring consumer-group mistakes behind most Kafka incidents we see, and the specific fixes.
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