Hey Zach,
> At LinkedIn, do you ever let Samza or Kafka auto-create topics?
We almost always auto-create. The brokers are configured this way. We're
moving to a model where we'll have a web UI, and developers will be able to
create their topics manually with custom configuration. When we do that,
Thanks a bunch for that info, Jon! It is pure gold and helps a lot.
At LinkedIn, do you ever let Samza or Kafka auto-create topics? Or do you
always create them by-hand before deploying code that uses them?
I understand why setting the topic config segment.bytes to smaller than 1GB
is beneficial
Hey Zach,
That's correct. You probably want to look into the following topic-level
configs:
cleanup.policy
min.cleanable.dirty.ratio
segment.ms
segment.bytes (we usually use the default value)
Also, here's some broker configs of interest that you might want to tweak
(along with the settings we
