Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, Joe Carder, an OpenLogic Kafka expert, answers frequently asked questions about KRaft vs. ZooKeeper and what the transition means for performance, architecture, operations, and migrating to Kafka 4.0

Get information about:

- What KRaft changes in Kafka’s architecture
- How metadata management works without ZooKeeper
- Performance and scalability implications
- Migration considerations and upgrade paths
- What Kafka 4 means for existing deployments

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