Kafka bkm update - #23
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…ance - Separate cloud-agnostic topology guidance from AWS-specific examples - Add "Data Movement in Kafka" section explaining producer write path, consumer read path, and partition leader/follower architecture - Generalize cloud topology section to use vCPU counts instead of AWS-specific instance types - Consolidate AWS deployment details into dedicated example section - Update single-node topology with complete system specifications: * 2 sockets, 192 cores/socket (96 physical + HT) * 6 NUMA nodes (3 per socket, 32 cores/node, SNC enabled) * 3 brokers pinned to dedicated NUMA nodes with 16 logical CPUs each - Add multi-cloud examples (AWS m8i, GCP C4) for Intel Xeon 6 guidance - Remove confusing NUMA notation and provide clear CPU pinning examples
- Add disclaimer note about 4.2 RC testing - Update all version references to specify "release candidate (RC)" - Remove TODO placeholders and update docs URLs to Kafka 4.1 - Clarify vm.dirty_background_bytes applies system-wide
Conflicts: software/kafka/README.md
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Updates recommended Kafka version from 4.2.0-RC to 4.2.0, released on February 17, 2026