I missed this somehow, but now Kafka can work without Zookeepe | CatOps

I missed this somehow, but now Kafka can work without Zookeeper! And I think these are great news!

New quorum controller, which is embeded in Kafka itself leverages Raft protocol under the hood. It will be added into the upcoming 2.8 release. However, it's already available in a preview mode.

Confluent managed to shave off some time for controlled shutdowns and the recovery time for uncontrolled shutdowns as well.

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