Hi, Is there a way to tell kafka streams to uniformly assign partitions across instances? If I have n kafka streams instances running, I want each to handle EXACTLY 1/nth number of partitions. No dynamic task assignment logic. Just dumb 1/n assignment.
Here’s our scenario. Lets say we have an “source" topic with 8 partitions. We also have 2 kafka streams instances. Each instances get assigned to handle 4 “source" topic partitions. BUT then we do a few maps and an aggregate. So data gets shuffled around. The map function uniformly distributes these across all partitions (I can verify that by looking at the partition offsets). After the map what I notice by looking at the topology is that one kafka streams instance get assigned to handle say 2 aggregate repartition topics and the other one gets assigned 6. Even worse, on bigger clusters (say 4 instances) we see say 2 nodes gets assigned downstream aggregate repartition topics and 2 other nodes assigned NOTHING to handle. Ara. ________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the e-mail by you is prohibited. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ________________________________
