Kafka replicate करते partitions अनेक brokers मध्ये durability आणि availability साठी — प्रत्येक partition ला एक leader आणि follower replicas असतात. जर एक broker fail होतो, तर एक follower त्याची जागा घेतो. Kafka च्या fault tolerance समजून घेण्यासाठी replication समजणे महत्वाचे आहे.
Replication कसे काम करते
Each PARTITION is replicated across multiple brokers (REPLICATION FACTOR copies, e.g. 3):
→ LEADER replica → handles all reads and writes for the partition
→ FOLLOWER replicas → copy (replicate) the leader's data, staying in sync
→ producers/consumers interact with the LEADER; followers are backups
→ if the leader's broker FAILS → a follower is promoted to leader (failover) → no data loss,
continued availability
