Without knowing much else about your requirements - Yes, your consumers should not be listening to topics they are not interested in. There's nothing wrong with having more topics.
> On Jul 10, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Vladi Feigin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Will appreciate if you share your thoughts based on your experience > regarding the following question: > What's a recommended strategy for Kafka multiple topics? > We have just a few topics and hundreds of event types and a lot of producers > Having just a few topics causes our consumers (many of them just need a > couple of event types to process) to work very hard > So we're planing moving to multi-topics > Do you think having hundreds of topics (topic per event type) is a good > approach? > Or maybe is better to create topic per a group of event types based on a > business relationship? > > > Thank you in advance, > Vladi > > -- > This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. > If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this on behalf of the > addressee you must not use, copy, disclose or take action based on this > message or any information herein. > If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender > immediately by reply email and delete this message. Thank you.
