What's your use case? How frequent do you expect to increase # partitions? Thanks,
Jun On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Kiran Nagasubramanian <nkira...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to Kafka. I was wondering if it's possible to increase the > no. of partitions of a topic during runtime(programmatically). I could see > that there're command line tools to achieve this. If I do not have any > other option, I was thinking of solving this by starting with excess no. of > partitions and adding the logic to Partitioner class to utilize only a few > partitions, initially. Later when the load goes up, by changing some hot > property, producer can be re-configured to push to additional partitions. > Is this a right way to do this? Please share if you've any ideas. > > Thanks, > Kiran >
