Large # of Topics/Partitions

2016-09-16 Thread Jens Rantil
Hi, This might also be of interest: http://www.confluent .io/blog/how-to-choose-the-number-of-topicspartitions-in-a-kafka-cluster/ Cheers, Jens On Monday, August 8, 2016, Daniel Fagnan wrote: > Thanks Tom! This was very helpful and I’ll explore having a more static > set of partitions as that

Re: Large # of Topics/Partitions

2016-08-08 Thread Daniel Fagnan
Thanks Tom! This was very helpful and I’ll explore having a more static set of partitions as that seems to fit Kafka a lot better. Cheers, Daniel > On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Tom Crayford wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > Kafka doesn't provide this kind of isolation or scalability for many many > s

Re: Large # of Topics/Partitions

2016-08-08 Thread Tom Crayford
Hi Daniel, Kafka doesn't provide this kind of isolation or scalability for many many streams. The usual design is to use a consistent hash of some "key" to attribute your data to a particular partition. That of course, doesn't isolate things fully, but has everything in a partition dependent on ea

Large # of Topics/Partitions

2016-08-08 Thread Daniel Fagnan
Hey all, I’m currently in the process of designing a system around Kafka and I’m wondering the recommended way to manage topics. Each event stream we have needs to be isolated from each other. A failure from one should not affect another event stream from processing (by failure, we mean a downs