Allen,
1. The design docs state that most OS¹s make good use of memory and keep
recently written files in memory
(http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#maximizingefficiency). Since
everything was just written, it should still be fresh in the OS cache.
2. I cannot answer your virtualization qu
I am currently using the Elasticsearch (ELK stack) and Redis is the current
choice as broker.
I want to move to a distributed broker to make that layer more HA.
Currently exploring kafka as a replacement.
I have a few questions:
1. I read that kafka is designed to write contents to disk and this
