https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-choose-number-topics-partitions-kafka-cluster
This might be useful for you. On Sat 26 Oct, 2019, 12:40 PM Jungyeol Lee, <jungy...@skelterlabs.com> wrote: > I'm running a kafka cluster running only one broker with GCP n1-standard-2 > instance. > I configured the number of partitions to 1000, but it is suffering from > running a broker on startup. It seems that it needs much more time for > topic creation. So, what I did is just set the smaller number of partitions > which is now 32. Everything works okay for now. Is this normal behavior or > performance? Or, are there any guidelines on setting the number of > partitions? > > Best, > -- >
