intermediateApache Kafka
How does Kafka guarantee message durability?
Kafka persists every message to disk (not just memory) as an append-only log, and with acks=all plus a replication factor greater than 1, a message is only considered successfully written once it's been copied to every in-sync replica — meaning it survives a single broker failure without loss. This combination of disk persistence, replication, and configurable acknowledgment is what lets Kafka be trusted for critical event data, not just best-effort messaging.
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