THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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We propose to create a segment-aligned empty producer snapshot whenever we detect that the value here https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/core/src/main/java/kafka/log/remote/RemoteLogManager.java#L581 is null. The rest of Tiered Storage's logic should then pick it the file up for upload from then onwith no changes. No changes will be required on the read path.
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