KIP-1181 — Metadata Rack Awareness for Diskless Topics
Discarded Tiered Storage
Proposed rack-aware leader selection for Diskless Topics so that each broker could serve as a rack-local leader for its consumers, reducing cross-rack traffic in cloud multi-AZ deployments. This KIP was discarded and its content absorbed into KIP-1163 (Diskless Core).
Protocol Impact
Produce · Metadata · DescribeTopicPartitions
Details
| Author | Anatolii Popov |
| Status | Discarded |
| JIRA | KAFKA-19257 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2025-05-09 |
| Last Modified | 2026-01-19 |
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