Ahmed, You can find relevant design details here - http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/design.html
The source code files to look at would be under packages kafka.network and kafka.log HTH, Neha On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:03 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone point me to how kafka reads/writes to files in such an > effecient manner? > > I remember watching a video where they described it briefly, it was > basically taking advantage of java nio but that is all I can recall. > > Looking for some good articles that go over what makes it performant etc. > > BTW, what files in the source should I be looking at to get a better idea? > > TIA.