Mitigating Kafka Broker 'Gray' Failures for Key-Based Partitioners with Partition Multihoming

Explore the concept of partition multihoming (PMH) as a solution to mitigate Kafka broker 'gray' failures for key-based partitioners in this 37-minute conference talk from Confluent. Dive into the real-world impact of gray failures that led to PMH's creation, understand its implementation details on key-based topics, and learn about the PMH workflow when a broker becomes unhealthy. Discover why PMH is crucial for reliability and should be considered a first-class feature of Kafka. Gain insights into the future roadmap for adding virtual partitioning in Apache Kafka for PMH. By the end of this talk, grasp the importance of PMH in maintaining application functionality during broker failures and its potential to revolutionize Kafka's reliability.