# Recording ready to view: SPEAKER Q&A THREAD: 27 September 2022 - Introduction to KRaft and KIP-500

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**Watch the recording and ask questions about this event in this thread!**

- 🗓 **When** : 27 September 2022 at 10:00 (UTC)
- 🗣 **Speaker(s)**: Jeffrey Lam
- 📔 **Talk(s)**: Introduction to KRaft and KIP-500

https://play.vidyard.com/UgFwLW1VPKTfUAXGWNakJu.html?

_(Apologies we had some technical difficulties in the beginning so the first 5 minutes of the presentation were not recorded)_

KRaft is the consensus protocol that was introduced to remove Apache Kafka’s dependency on ZooKeeper for metadata management (KIP-500). It addresses many urgent scalability and performance issues in Kafka and greatly simplifies the architecture. In this meetup, you will learn about the basic concept of Kraft and KIP-500.

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