How should hardware be turned
Should be tuned to reads and writes
Why are memory buffers important?
Because they read and write to disk
How much ram will you need
You can estimate this by multipying time by throughput.
If you are going to be sending 100MB/s for 100s then this would be 10GB for buffers alone
What hardware is important
Where can you deploy kafka
What is puppet deployment
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