Apache Kafka performance #1 - linger.ms

This is the first in an ongoing ad-hoc series of posts on Apache Kafka performance. I have no general direction, I’ll just share interesting insights based on the performance testing I do on Apache Kafka. Recently I was curious to see if there was any general performance improvement since Kafka 3.X. So I ran a suite of benchmarks with Dimster against 3.7.2 and 4.3.0. I saw two common patterns:…