No — the number of partitions is specified when you create the topic, and you can subsequently modify it using the command-line tool, but if you try to write to a nonexistent partition you’ll get an exception.
Ian. --- Ian Wrigley Director, Education Services Confluent, Inc > On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Nomar Morado <nomar.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Is there a way to send message to broker to a new partition with the > assumption that the broker will create new partition automatically? (almost > like auto.create.topics.enable property) > > thanks