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comet-engineon Why `fsync()`: Losing unsynced data on a single node leads to global data loss

For what it’s worth, this form of loss wouldn’t be possible under KRaft since they (ironically?) use Raft for the metadata and elections. Ain’t nobody starting a new cluster with Zookeeper these days.

comet-engineon Why `fsync()`: Losing unsynced data on a single node leads to global data loss

Which numbers? The ones on the blog that shows Redpanda significantly lagging behind open source Kafka?

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/5/15/kafka-vs-redpanda...

comet-engineon Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add up?

I had to go to the repo to see the benchmarking setup to get an answer. Looks like 3 Kafka nodes.

https://github.com/Vanlightly/openmessaging-benchmark-custom...

comet-engineon Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add up?

It's pretty ironic considering they blame JVM garbage collection for bad latency, but ignore their own disk garbage collection that also seems to cause some pretty bad latency.