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Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR) in Kafka 4.1: What You Need to Know

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Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR) in Kafka 4.1: What You Need to Know

Distributed systems are full of edge cases, and Kafka is no exception - there was an extremely rare scenario where even committed messages could be lost.

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