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• How Kafka actually stores messages on disk

  Partitions, segments, offsets, indexes and the page cache: what a Kafka topic looks like as files, and why that design is fast.

  October 22, 2026 · 8 min read

  Kafka Internals · Part 1kafkadistributed-systemsperformance