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title: "Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% After Switching to XFS"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/allegro-reduces-kafka-producer-latency-outliers-by-82-after-switching-to-xfs-vygce6air
source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/04/allegro-kafka-producer-latency/
type: article
source: "InfoQ"
published: 2024-04-26T07:47:53.066Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:27:15.675Z
tags: ["performance", "linux", "apache-kafka"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% After Switching to XFS

**[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Allegro reduced Kafka producer latency outliers by 82% after switching to XFS file system. They experimented with performance optimization options such as Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.

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Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#apache-kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-kafka)

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