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Sep 2, 2022 · Big Data

Preventing Data Loss in Kafka: Message Semantics, Failure Scenarios, and Reliability Solutions

This article explains Kafka's message delivery semantics, analyzes potential data‑loss scenarios across producer, broker, and consumer components, and provides concrete configuration and coding practices—such as idempotent producers, proper ACK settings, replication factors, and manual offset commits—to maximize message durability and reliability.