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Kafka’s internal mechanisms for leader election, partition assignment, and file storage are explained, covering how the Controller uses ZooKeeper, the ISR-based leader selection process, partition distribution strategies, segment file structures, and the evolution of offset management from Zookeeper to the __consumer_offsets topic.
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