[EdwardDiego]

They were supposed to be, in the original KIP, but that changed, I'm unclear as to what drove that change.

So my coworker's solution joins the KRaft quorum as an observer, then publishes metadata changes to a topic you can consume from.

[EdwardDiego]

Sorry, realised I'd lapsed into jargon and missed the edit.

KIP = Kafka Improvement Proposal. The mechanism for proposing big changes to Kafka and getting community feedback before core committers vote on adoption or not.

I'm not sure why Zookeeper is viewed so negatively in regards to Kafka, it's damn solid, and if I can quote Jepsen "Use Zookeeper". I know Confluent wanted to replace it because it struggled when you hit thousands of topics on a single cluster, but that feels like a very niche use case to me.

[cmckn]

That sounds like a handy project!

I agree re: zookeeper. It’s rarely been the part of the stack making me lose sleep. ~~Raft~~ seems like a way to “modernize” Kafka by detaching it from the Hadoop ecosystem — and I think that’s about it. :(