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Redpanda 26.1 Architecture and Operations
An eight-part source-guided study of Redpanda 26.1.13: Kafka compatibility, Raft durability, storage, remote data, transforms, RPC, cluster control, and benchmark design.
complete8 / 8 episodes•92 min total•advanced
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What You'll Learn
- ✓Map Kafka-compatible APIs to Redpanda-specific semantics
- ✓Trace acknowledgement, Raft, write-cache, and durable-media boundaries
- ✓Distinguish local, tiered, and Cloud Topics storage behavior
- ✓Reason about transform VM instances and internal RPC backpressure
- ✓Design reproducible performance and cluster-management tests
Episodes by Track
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Foundations
Kafka compatibility, Raft durability, and the local storage engine
3 posts
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Advanced Features
Tiered storage, in-broker WebAssembly transforms, and internal RPC
3 posts
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Production
Cluster control, recovery boundaries, and reproducible performance tests
2 posts
Prerequisites
- •Distributed Systems
- •C++
- •Kafka Fundamentals
- •Consensus Algorithms
Who This Is For
- •backend-engineers
- •platform-engineers
- •architects