chapter seven
This chapter covers:
- Diving into topics including creation parameters and configuration options
- Exploring how partitions exist as log files written on disk
- Examining how segments impact the data inside partitions
- Check out a way to test with
EmbeddedKafkaCluster
- Evaluating topic compaction and its impact on how data can be retained
In this chapter, we will look further into how we might store our data across topics as well as how to create and maintain topics. This will include how partitions fit into our design considerations and how we can view our data on the brokers. All of this information will help us as we look at how to make a topic show data like a database table that updates, rather than an append only log!