Kafka: acks=all is not durable without min.insync.replicas

acks=all waits for every in-sync replica to acknowledge. If replicas have fallen out of the ISR, 'every in-sync replica' can mean just the leader - and a single broker failure loses acknowledged writes.

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Published 2026-08-25