Hi all,
Interested in getting people’s opinion on something. The problem I have is that some people launch streams app in our cluster but forget to set a replication factor > 1. Then it’s a pain to increase the topic’s RF, when we do notice some topic partitions go offline because we reboot brokers. I have two solutions for this, which I’m interested in hearing: Make the replication.factor in Kafka Streams “opiniated / smart” by changing the default to a dynamic min(3, # brokers). Create a “minimum.replication.factor” in Kafka broker settings. If any topic is trying to be created using a RF less than the min, Kafka says no and doesn’t create the topic. That would ensure no topics get “miscreated” in production clusters and ease the pain on both devs, devops and support. Thoughts? My preference goes towards 2). Cheers! Stephane
