Benchmarking Apache Kafka: 2 Million Writes Per Second (On Three Cheap Machines)

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Jay Kreps. "Benchmarking Apache Kafka: 2 Million Writes Per Second (On Three Cheap Machines)." engineering.linkedin.com, April 2014. Archived at archive.org

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Benchmarking Apache Kafka: 2 Million Writes Per Second (On Three Cheap Machines) | LinkedIn Engineering

I wrote a blog post about how LinkedIn uses Apache Kafka as a central publish-subscribe log for integrating data between applications, stream processing, and Hadoop data ingestion. To actually make this work, though, this "universal log" has to be a cheap abstraction. If you want to use a system as

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