Hey Chinmay, Cool, this is good feedback. I didn't think I was *that* crazy. :)
Cheers, Chris On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Chinmay Soman <chinmay.cere...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thats what we're doing as well - appending partition count to the kafka > topic name. This actually helps keep track of the #partitions for each > topic (since Kafka doesn't have a Metadata store yet). > > In case of topic expansion - we actually just resort to creating a new > topic. Although that is an overhead - the thought process is that this will > minimize operational errors. Also, this is necessary to do in case we're > doing some kind of joins. > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Jakob Homan <jgho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 18 March 2015 at 17:48, Chris Riccomini <criccom...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > One thing I haven't seen, but might be relevant, is including partition > > > counts in the topic. > > > > Yeah, but then if you change the partition count later on, you've got > > incorrect information forever. Or you need to create a new stream, > > which might be a nice forcing function to make sure your join isn't > > screwed up. There'd need to be something somewhere to enforce that > > though. > > > > > > -- > Thanks and regards > > Chinmay Soman >
