𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗪𝗘 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄

𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗪𝗘 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄

Kafka interviews test your system design skills. You must understand how the cluster works.

Here is what you need to know:

• Producers and consumers stay decoupled.
• Brokers manage log segments for high throughput.
• ZooKeeper handles cluster metadata.
• ZooKeeper manages controller elections.
• KRaft replaces ZooKeeper.

Visualizing these internals helps you explain them clearly.

Source: https://dev.to/pramod_pr_d9eda13502236e8/cracking-the-senior-swe-interview-kafka-zookeeper-and-kraft-decoupled-19c6