Follower
A broker that replicates a partition's data from the leader, serving as a replica for failover.
A follower keeps a copy of the partition data it replicates, continuously fetching new records from the leader. It doesn't serve client reads or writes directly (in the default configuration) — its role is to let an up-to-date follower take over as the new leader without losing confirmed data if the leader fails.
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