#Operating Systems • 2 Articles
Articles tagged with #Operating Systems
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Engineering Kafka from First Principles • Part 5 2026-09-01
Kafka Zero-Copy Optimization: How sendfile() Streams Millions of Events/Sec
Discover how Kafka uses Java NIO transferTo() and Linux sendfile() Zero-Copy optimization to stream gigabits of data per second with minimal CPU load.
Engineering Kafka from First Principles • Part 2 2026-08-21
Kafka Performance Secrets: Why Sequential Disk I/O Beats Random RAM Access
Learn why Kafka stores all events on disk. Understand how sequential disk writes and Linux OS Page Cache bypass JVM Garbage Collection pauses.