Part 15 - What is replication in Kafka | Replication Factor in Kafka | Kafka for beginners
In this video we will be learning about the Replication factor in Kafka. We know that Kafka is a fault tolerant system and also it is distributed system. we will under stand that how Kafka achieves this fault tolerance. Whenever is topic has some replication factor then then Kafka internally creates multiple instances of each partitions. The main partition is called the Leader and the other partitions are called the Followers.