Fine-tune Kafka performance with the Kafka optimization theorem

The performance of your Apache Kafka environment will be affected by many factors, including choices, such as the number of partitions, number of replicas, producer acknowledgments, and message batch sizes you provision. But different applications have different requirements. Some prioritize latency over throughput, and some do the opposite. Similarly, some applications put a premium on durability, whereas others care more about availability. This article introduces a way of thinking about the t...