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Try Redpanda

Afonso Mukai requested to merge try_redpanda into main

Created by: matthew-d-jones

DO NOT MERGE. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT

Redpanda is a C++ implementation of the Kafka broker. It claims to have performance advantages over Kafka, as well as the advantage of not requiring Zookeeper.

Here I've tried swapping out Kafka+Zookeeper for Redpanda in the system tests... looks promising! Redpanda starts up much faster than Kafka+Zookeeper. I had to make a small change to the test setup code as it does not yet support the Admin API, but otherwise it was simply a case of replacing the containers in the docker-compose file.

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