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I might be out of my realm here but would it be more efficient for the Kafka brokers to use a gossip protocol to distribute the metadata?
by xorchasiv 6y ago
I might be out of my realm here but would it be more efficient for the Kafka brokers to use a gossip protocol to distribute the metadata?
- jdean677 6y agoGossip protocol is useful for propagating node failures or events that are fine with being eventually consistent. It cannot be used for leader election as these events are time sensitive and needs to be consistent across the cluster within a short duration, that is the reason we have raft & paxos.
- xorchasiv 6y agoAh I see, thank you for the clarification