Hi, I have 3 nodes, each with 3 brokers, Kafka cluster along with 3 zookeeper cluster. So total 9 brokers spread across 3 different machines. I am adhered to Kafka 0.9.
In order to optimally use the infrastructure for 2 topics (as of now, is not expected to grow drastically in near future), I am thinking of having 9 partitions with 3 (or 6?) replication factor. Will this help me having good distribution of partitions and replicas across brokers? System does not have hugh load (<50 requests/sec of less than 1 kb load each) as of now and is neither expected to get higher load than this. If this replication and partition does not help, please suggest a better topic partition and replication strategy. Also please guide me with any articles or documents about setting up multi node Kafka cluster in regard to partition, replication, general properties to be used (a kind of good practice etc.) Thanks, Amit
