I don't think so because more partition can led to unavailability but yes can led to higher throughput. But it cause more problems like increasing end to end latency, requires more open file handler and require more memory at client side.
*Thanks, Kunal* *+91-9958189589* *Data Analyst* *First Paper Publication : **http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2790798 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2790798> * *Second Paper Publication : http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2947432 <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2947432>* *Blog:- **http://learnhardwithkunalgupta.blogspot.in <http://learnhardwithkunalgupta.blogspot.in> * On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Laxmi Narayan NIT DGP <nit.dgp...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, > > Does adding more partitions to kafka will help in scaling ? > > > *Regards,* > *Laxmi Narayan Patel* > *MCA NIT Durgapur (2011-2014)* > *Mob:- 9741292048,8345847473 * >