Hi Cees De Groot, I don't want to loose my data.
In-case of 5 brokers there is a chance of 2 brokers down. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Cees de Groot <c...@pagerduty.com> wrote: > How much do you like your data? > > It really depends. There are situations that a replication factor of 1 is > sufficient, we work with 3 (with replicas in each of our three DCs, because > that's our model-of-things-were-afraid-of). The question really is - how > many brokers do you want to be able to afford to lose, and do you want to > pay the insurance premium (extra storage, lower performance)? > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Srikanth Chandika < > linosrika...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > What is the best recommended replication-factor for a 5 broker kafka? > > Can anybody suggest me the good replication factor > > > > Regards, > > Srikanth > > >