Brokers can host multiple partitions for the same topic without any problems.
Philip ----------------------------------------- http://www.philipotoole.com On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:15 PM, Kashyap Mhaisekar <kashya...@gmail.com> wrote: HI, Is the maximum no. of partitions for a topic dependent on the no. of machines in a kafka cluster? For e.g., if I have 3 machines in a cluster, can I have 5 partitions with a caveat that one machine can host multiple partitions for a given topic? Regards, Kashyap
