Kafka tana aiki ciki-ciki kadir (ajiya log, ZooKeeper/KRaft)?

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A gida, Kafka tana ajiye bayani a matsayin **ajiye-kawai log** a kan jiya (tsarawa a cikin sassan), tana amfani da ingantaccen hanyoyin I/O, kuma tana sarrafa metadata na tari ta **ZooKeeper** (a bade) ko **KRaft** (yanzu). Fahimtar ciki-ciki yana zama mai mahimmanci don zararrin fahimtar halin da abubuwan aiki na Kafka.

## Ajiye commit log

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Each partition is an append-only LOG stored on disk, split into SEGMENTS (files):
  → new events are APPENDED to the end (sequential writes → fast)
  → events are immutable once written; identified by OFFSET
  → old segments are deleted (retention) or compacted
  → an INDEX maps offsets to file positions (fast lookups)
→ the append-only log is the core of Kafka's design (durable, sequential, efficient)
```

## Hanyoyin inganta

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✓ SEQUENTIAL I/O → appending to a log is sequential disk access → very fast (vs random I/O)
✓ ZERO-COPY (sendfile) → transfer data from disk to network WITHOUT copying through the app
  → highly efficient reads
✓ OS PAGE CACHE → Kafka relies on the OS cache (recent data in memory) rather than its own
  cache → fast reads of recent data
✓ Batching, compression → efficient I/O
→ these make Kafka extremely fast despite using disk
```

## Daidaita tari: ZooKeeper → KRaft

```text
Kafka needs to manage: cluster METADATA, broker membership, leader ELECTION, configs:
  → ZOOKEEPER (historically) → a separate system Kafka used for coordination/metadata
  → KRAFT (KIP-500, now) → Kafka's OWN built-in consensus (Raft) → removes the ZooKeeper
    dependency → simpler ops, better scalability (the modern approach)
→ Kafka is moving to KRaft (self-managed metadata, no separate ZooKeeper)
```

## Me ya sa shi yake da mahimmanci

Fahimtar yadda Kafka ke aiki ciki-ciki shine ilimi mai kima a matsayin saniye saboda yana **zararrin fahimtar halin da abubuwan aiki na Kafka**, yana nuna ilimi mai mahimmanci.

Fahimtar ciki-ciki na Kafka yana bayyana dalilin da yasa yana aiki da abubuwan aiki kamar yadda yake.

Fahimtar **ajiye commit log** — kowane bangare shine append-only log a kan jiya wanda aka rarraba shi cikin sassan, tare da abubuwa wanda aka kara jere (saurin rubutu), wajen gida ta offset, ba za'a iya canza ba in an rubuta, kuma tsoffin sassan aka goge ko tsaida, tare da index don saurin offset lookups — yana bayyana dini na ajiye na Kafka (append-only log kasance mahimmanci ga tsarawa da inganta).

Fahimtar **hanyoyin inganta** — **jerin I/O** (saka a jere shine saurin jerin ajiye jiya), **zero-copy** (jigilar bayani daga jiya zuwa network ba tare da jigilar ta aikace-aikacen ba, don karuwar karanta), **OS page cache** (amfani da cache na OS don saurin karanta bayani na jiya), da tasa/damje — yana bayyana *me ya sa Kafka ke saurin duk da amfani da jiya*, mahimman fahimta (Kafka yana samun saurin aiki ta hanyoyin dinika, ba ta guje jiya).

Fahimtar **daidaitawar tari** — cewa Kafka tana sarrafa metadata, membership na broker, da jefa-shugabancin ta **ZooKeeper** a bade ko **KRaft** yanzu (Kafka's sarili gida Raft ijtima'i wanda ke cire dogon dogon ZooKeeper don saukin aiki da kyau inganta, hanyar zamani) — yana nuna fahimti na mahimman canjin idadi.

Wancan ilimi na ciki-ciki (ajiye log, hanyoyin inganta, canjin daidaita) yana zararrin fahimtar abubuwan aiki na Kafka, tsarawa, da abubuwan da ake baiwa, wanda ke nuna waɗanda suke fahimtar Kafka sosai.

Tun da fahimtar ciki-ciki na Kafka (ajiye append-only log, hanyoyin inganta kamar jerin I/O da zero-copy wanda ke sa shi saurin, da canjin daidaita ZooKeeper-to-KRaft) yana zararrin fahimtar halin da abubuwan aiki da abubuwan da ake baiwa, kuma tun da wannan yana nuna ilimi mai mahimmanci na Kafka, fahimtar yadda Kafka ke aiki ciki-ciki shine ilimi mai kima a matsayin saniye — zararrin fahimtar abubuwan aiki na Kafka (me ya sa ke saurin duk da amfani da jiya), tsarawa (log), da abubuwan da ake baiwa (KRaft), wanda yana nuna fahimtin ban-haushi wanda ke nuna zararrin ilimi na Kafka, kuma mai amfani don tunani game da halin Kafka da idadi na KRaft.