THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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In most cases, metadata refresh should be able to pick up the new leader if a broker is down. If a broker was not down but just slow, as long as request timeout is set to a reasonable value, we should not see dramatic increase in TCP connections when a broker was not down but just slow.
Plan to deprecate TIMEOUT_CONFIG
To replace TIMEOUT_CONFIG with REPLICATION_TIMEOUT_CONFIG, we will do the following;
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