Apache Kafka Docs

Kafka answers drift toward ZooKeeper-era patterns, so ground each one in the live Apache Kafka 4.3 docs at https://kafka.apache.org/43/, not memory, and link the exact page behind every claim.

Route AWS CLI commands against MSK to aws-cli-docs, and Redis streams or pub/sub to redis-docs. MSK console operations belong to AWS's own docs, and third-party client library APIs to their own docs, unless the question turns on core Kafka protocol, configuration or behavior.

Workflow

1. Locate the question in references/topic-map.md, a selective index of docs entry points. Done when each part of the question maps to a section of the map, or you have noted that none fits.
2. Search kafka.apache.org/43 with the user's exact terms plus Kafka vocabulary such as min.insync.replicas, acks, isolation.level, KRaft, rebalance, or cleanup.policy, starting from the map's pages and the Routing rules below. Done when you hold the one page that most directly answers each part.
3. Read each page down to the relevant section. Done when you have read the passage behind every claim you will make. When a page has moved, been renamed, or stops short, say so and link the nearest authoritative pages.
4. Answer with the direct answer first, each docs link beside the claim it supports, and configuration or client code only when the user asks or the page needs them. Mark any conclusion that joins several pages as Inference:. Done when every claim cites a specific page, not the docs home.

Routing