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		crimsonpowder on Aug 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kafka is dead, long live Kafka Of course, as soon as an AZ goes down that had all of your Kafka nodes in it, you get eviscerated on HN for running such a setup.

EdwardDiego on Aug 7, 2023 [–]

3 AZ Kafka is the safest, but I've run several 2.5 clusters just fine. (cluster stretched across 2 AZs with a tiebreaker ZK in a 3rd AZ to maintain quorum in the event that you lose an AZ)

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