Hi, I can only speak for Flink, there you usually fan-out/parallelise the stream after a non-parallel source.
Cheers, Aljoscha On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 at 15:48 Amit Sela <amitsel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a general question about how stream-processing frameworks/engines > usually behave in the following scenario: > > Say I have a Pipeline that consumes from 1 Kafka partition, so that my > initial (optimal) parallelism is 1 as well. > > For any downstream computation, is it common for stream processors to > "fan-out/parallelise" the stream by shuffling the data into more > streams/partitions/bundles ? > > Thanks, > Amit >