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Explain Zero-Copy in Kafka.
Tests whether you know zero-copy means Kafka transfers data straight from the page cache/disk to the network socket via the OS's sendfile() call, bypassing the JVM's user-space buffers entirely -- which is why Kafka can sustain such high throughput without CPU being the bottleneck.
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