This is originally from a Slack thread. Copied here to make it available permanently. You can join the community Slack here sam Let’s say, I’ve got 3 kafka brokers and have min.insync.replicas to 2 How do I decide the no. of partitions if I’m not using any partition key ? Neil Buesing If yo…

How many partitions to use if I'm not using any key

vnadkarni 14 June 2022 12:26 2

Another thread worth looking at, that explores other considerations (throughput, etc) and when you do use a key: How many partitions should a topic have? - #2 by mmacphail

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How many partitions should a topic have? Architecture and Design	3	7198	17 February 2021
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